Francis Newdegate
Sir Francis Newdegate Sir William Lamond Allardyce | |
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18th Governor of Western Australia | |
In office 9 April 1920 – 16 June 1924 | |
Monarch | George V |
Premier | James Mitchell Philip Collier |
Preceded by | Sir William Ellison-Macartney |
Succeeded by | Sir William Campion |
Personal details | |
Born | 31 December 1862 Chelsea, London, England |
Died | 2 January 1936 Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England | (aged 73)
Spouse | Hon. Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot |
Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate,
Early life and family
Born in 1862, he was the son of
Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1883. He married Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot on 13 October 1888.[2]
Newdegate inherited estates at Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton and at Harefield, near Uxbridge, on the death of his father in 1893, and uncle Sir Edward Newdegate in 1902. He assumed the additional surname "Newdegate", differently spelt, under the terms of the will of a kinsman Charles Newdigate Newdegate, in September 1902.[3] In 1911 he erected, at Arbury Hall, a monument to the memory of George Eliot, whose father had been employed on the Arbury estate.[1]
Career
Newdegate was
Newdegate was appointed a
Governor of Tasmania (1917 to 1920). He was appointed Governor of Western Australia in 1920 where he served until 1924. On retirement he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1925. The Western Australian town of Newdegate is named after him.[1]
Later life and death
Newdegate was appointed
John Maurice Fitzroy, father of the 3rd Viscount Daventry
.
Personal life
He was a friend of
Arbury Park after the Newdigate family home.[6]
See also
- Newdigate family
References
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538.
- ^ Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot, thepeerage.com
- ^ "No. 27478". The London Gazette. 30 September 1902. p. 6209.
- ^ "New Writ". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 15 February 1917. col. 767.
- ^ "House of Commons". Politics and Parliament. The Times. No. 41404. London. 16 February 1917. col C, p. 8.
- ^ Oats, Sydney; South Australian Heritage (12 May 2010). "The Mansion Adelaide Hills 1969". Flickr. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
Info Courtesy of South Australian Heritage.