VICTORIA.
NEW GOVERNOR : A.PPOINTED. '' 37 TELEGKArH—PRESB ASSOCIATION—COP Ylt I GDI • (Rec. April 9, 0.45 a.m.) j London, April 8. It is officially : announced that Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael , will succeed. Major-Gen-eral Sir Reginald Talbot as Governor of Victoria. Sir ' Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, the fourteenth Baronet; l was . born in Edinburgh 9-n March. 18, 1859, and succeeded his father in 1891. Ho was-.private secretary to Sir George Trevelyan and Lord Dalliousie, when they were Secretaries for Scotland. Prom 1894 to 1897 "he was chairman of the Scottish Board of Lunacy. In 1892 lie contested Peebles and Selkirk, and ho wa3 Liberal member of the House of Commons for Midlothian from 1895 to 1900. - Ho has been a Trustee of tlio National .Gallery since". 1906. - He has published'various papers on centipedes, spiders, etc. His heir is his 1 brother,-John Murray Gibson-Carmichael..
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 168, 9 April 1908, Page 7
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138VICTORIA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 168, 9 April 1908, Page 7
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