NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18352, 9 March 1920, Page 6

NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

HIGH MILITARY OFFICER MENTIONED. According to private advice there is a possibility that General Sir Edmund George Barrow; of the Indian Army, may succeed the Earl of Liverpool as Governor-General of New Zealand.

General Sir Edmund George Barrow, G.C.8., G.C.5.1., has had a distinguished military career, mostly in India, and retired from the Army last year. He was born in 1852, his father being the late Major-General Joseph Lyon Barrow'. Sir Edmund Barrow w r as educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, and gained his first commission in 1871, in the 102nd‘Fusiliers. He served during the Afghan War in 1879, and with the Egyptian Expedition in 1882, being present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. In 1807 ho took part in the Tirah Expedition, and was ivith the China Expedition in 19001901 as Chief of Staff, with the rank of major-general. He was Assistant Secretary to the Government of India in the Military Department from 1887 to 1890, was First Departmental Secretary from: 1897 to 1899, and Secretary from 1901 to 1913 c In 1908 he was General Commanding the Southern Army in India, was appointed Military Secretary at tho India Office in 1914, and became a member of the Council of India in 1917. From 1911 to 1913 .he was an Aide-de-Camp-Oeneral to his Majesty the King. He married, in 1882, Miss Letit-ia Story, daughter of the late Rev W. Story, of Couch, County Tyrone, Ireland. _ Sir Edmund Barrow' has one son, Major R. E- Barrow, and one daughter, Miss Kathleen Baa-row.