LORD DENMAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15557, 6 March 1911, Page 7

LORD DENMAN.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 3. Lord Denman confirms the previous announcement of his appointment as Governor-General of Australia. He will remain in England till after King George’s coronation, and will sail for the Commonwealth at the end of June.

Lord Denman is the third Baron (tho title was created in 1834). The first Baron was a distinguished lawyer, Solicitor-General for Queen Caroline, and 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 lie 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 Gentiemen-at-Arms and Deputy-Speaker of the House of Lords. He married, in 1903, Gertrude Mary, a daughter of Lord Cowdray (better known as Sir Weetman Pearson, for many years Liberal member of the House of. Commons for Colchester). There is one child of tho marriage (the Hon Thomas Denman), born in 1905.