THE NEW GOVERNOR

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 11 April 1910, Page 5

THE NEW GOVERNOR

' * JOHN D POYNDER. ; MR . --) LORD PLUNKET. : sucasssm 'iv ~ TroN>] ■ WEXLIjJ*G*rON, suc T e ? Sir Joli/i Dicksou-PbyndeT . Lord Plunk** as Governor' of Me* land. Major Sir John Kecfcson-PbyMcfof,, J D.5,0., J.P., M.P., is the sixth baroiT-e*,, 1 the baxonotcy liavmg been created iw 1802, He was born in 1866 and sue- J ceeded to the title in 1884. He married' 1 Anne, tho daughter of R. H. O. Dundas and Catherine Anile, sister' of the second Baron- Napier of'Magdala in' 18961 He * has one daughter. Sir John i was educatedl at Harrow and> Oxford; He as- * sumod the name of Poynder on sue- * ceeding to his maternal uncle's pro- t perty in 1881. He was formerly a- lieu- J tenant iir the 3rd Royal Scots Regiment,. * and served 1 as a major in the Wilts Yeo^ *■ manry in. the South African War, and wears the Queen's medal (throe clasp^)'. J He has no> heir. His English properties J include 8 Chesterfield Gardens (his Lon- * don Irouse), Hart-ham Park, Corsham, *j and Hilmarton Manor, Came. '