AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORGENERAL.
♦ LORD DENMAN TO SUCCEED LORD DUDLEY. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright MELBOURNE, Ist March. Lord Denman will succeed Lord Dudley as Governor- General of Australia. It is reported that the position was offered to Sir T. Gibson * CarmichaeL. j late Governor of Victoria, before he ! accepted the Governorship of Madras, ! but that he declined tha offer for j private reasons. | [Lord Dsnman is the third Baron (the : title was created in 1834)./ The first i Baron was a distinguished lawyer : Solicitor-General ior Queen Caroline, and j later (from 1835 to 1850) Lord Chief ! Justice of England. The present Lord ; was born in 1874, educated at the Royal ! Military College at Sandhurst,, and became a lieutenant in the Royal Scots. In the South African war he served as /Captain commanding the 35th (Middlesex) Squadron of Imperial Yeomanry, and was wounded. Lord Denman is a Lord-in- Waiting to His Majesty the King, Captain of the Honorary Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, and DeputySpeaker of the House of Lords. He married, in 1903, Gertrude Mary, a daughter of Lord Cowdray. There is one child of the marriage (the Hon. Thomas Denman), born in 1905.] LORD DUDLEY WELL NOT SPEAK. (Received Maa'ch 2, 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Lord Dudley declines to make a. 1 statement with reference to his retirement.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 51, 2 March 1911, Page 7
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