Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet Bt GCB PC (3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856) was a Bombay Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of Hong Kong from 1843 to 1844. Pottinger was the lead British negotiator and signatory of the treaty that ended the First Opium War. The treaty forced China to pay an indemnity, open five ports to British trade, and cede Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom. He held several other high-ranking administrative positions within the British Empire, including Governor of the Cape Colony (South Africa) in 1847 and Governor of Madras (India) from 1848 to 1854.