GOVERNOR GENERAL
LORD BLEDISLOE APPOINTED AGRICULTURAL EXPERT i (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 29. His Excellency the GoVernor-Gen-eral has received official advice that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Lord Bledisloe, K.8.E., to be Governor-General of New Zealand, in succession to General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,. G.C.M.G., K.C.8., D. 5.0., M.V.0., whose term of office will expire early next year.
DETAILS OF CAREER. Charles Bathurst, Baron Bledisloe, was born in 1867, being the son of Charles Bathurst, of Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Sherborne, Eton,, and University College, Oxford, and married the Hon. Bertha Susan Loyses, daughtei’ o\f the. first Lord Ludlow. He has two sons and one daughter. He was a Gold Medallist and latei’ Chairman of Governors of the Royal' Agricultural College, Cirencester, is a Chancery barrister, and conveyancer; was President of the Central Chamber of Agriculture in 1915, President of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association, 1919-1921, and was President or Chairman of .several other important agricultural societies and associations, including the Farmers’ Club (1923-24). He was Conservative member of Parliament for South Wilts (Wilton) Division from 1910 to 1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food from 1916 to 1917, Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply and Director of Sugar Distribution 1917-3 9, and is a member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster. He is' a Captain of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (S.R.), and was f formerly Captain of the R.M.R.E. He was also Military Secretary to Salisbury Training Centre and Southern Command. He is a Director of Lloyd’s Bank, Ltd., and of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. His publications include several papers and pamphlets on Agricultural and Educational questions. His recreations are described as agriculture, cattle-breeding, and pig-breeding, shooting, cricket and golf. He was created a K.B.E. in 1927, and raised to the peerage in 1918. His heir is his son, Hon B. L. Bathurst.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1929, Page 7
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