Significados de provisional successor em inglês

The King wishes to have Sir E. Barnes appointed provisional successor to Lord Dalhousie.

Suggested to him Sir J. Malcolm's being made provisional successor to Lord W. Bentinck for the reasons I have mentioned.

The objection to making Malcolm provisional successor is that he would stay till he died in order to be Governor-General one day.

I shall see the Duke if I can to-morrow and suggest the appointment of Sir J. Malcolm as provisional successor to Lord William.

That paper was lost, yet it was known that he had named Francisco de Sa, then commanding in Goa, as his provisional successor.

I suggested that it would be expedient to unite the influence of Governor-General with that of Commander-in-Chief, and make Lord William Bentinck provisional successor.