FALKLAND ISLANDS

Evening Star, Issue 20779, 29 April 1931, Page 9

FALKLAND ISLANDS

APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR SIR JAMES O’GRADY. (British Official Wireless ) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, April 27. The King has approved tho appointment of Sir James O’Grady, who was until recently Governor of Tasmania, to bo Governor and Commander-in-Chicf of tho Falkland Islands, in succession to Mr Arnold Hodson. [Sir James O’Grady was horn at Bristol, of Irish parents, in 1866. Ho began work at an early ago in a mineral watoi factory, but was afterwards apprenticed to a furniture maker. He travelled all over England as a journeyman, ana at the age of twenty-four returned to tho city of his birth, and entered upon a period of intense activity as tradi unionist and Socialist. Ho became a city councillor (1897-98), and was foremost in a successful local movement for scholarships in public schools. He was president of tho Trades Union Congress at Bristol in 1898, and has attended various Labour congresses in France, Germany, and America. Ho was a highly sucecsslu! organiser of tho National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades’ Association. Ho has served on tho executive of the General Federation of Trade Unions and the Shipbuilding Trades’ Federation, and was afterwards secretary of tho National Federation of General Workers. His military ranis of captain was' given him in 1918, when ho went to Ireland on a recruiting mission with Colonel Arthur Lynch He had been from 1915 with British, French, Russian, and American troops, in various theatres of war. Ho was member for East Leeds from 1906 to 1918, was returned unopposed in tho latter year for tho southeast division of that city, and retained the seat with a majority of 4,062 in the succeeding election. Ho was appointed Governor of Tasmania in 1924. in religion he is a Roman Catholic.]