VICEROY OF INDIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 9

VICEROY OF INDIA

APPOINTMENT OF LORD WILLINGDON. (United Press Association.) ; (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 19. Lord Willingdon has been appointed Viceroy of India. Viscount Willingdon was born in 1860 and was raised to the peerage in 1910 as a baron. He was for 12 years the well-known Liberal member for Hastings and Bodmin—Mr Freeman Thomas. He had already shown his aptitude for overseas administration when he was A.D.C. to the first Earl Brassey, his father-in-law, from 1897 to 1900, when the earl was Governor of Victoria. During the last part of his time at .Westminster Lord Willingdon was a Junior Lord of the Treasury and then Lord-in-waiting to King George V. This post he resigned in order to take over the Governorship of Bombay, which he occupied from 1913 to 1919, and on the expiry of his term he received the unusual honour of being appointed Governor of Madras. After his return a little over two years ago he was invited by the present Government to undertake a mission to China in order that he might furnish a report on the condition of that disturbed country, with particular attention to the delayed payments of the Boxer indemnity. Lord Willingdon has been a very keen and captained the Eton and Cambridge elevens on a number of occasions, also playing in the Sussex County eleven. His commercial activities have been very extensive, and even now he is a director of the General and Commercial Investment' Trust and other financial organisations. In 1892 he married Lady Marie Brassey, and their son, who is heir to the title, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Frecman-Thotnas, born in 1899, was married two years ago to Maxine, daughter of Sir Johnston Porbcs-Robertson, the eminent actor.

A POPULAR CHOICE. LONDON, December 20. (Received Dec. 21, at 5.6 p.m.) Lord Willingdon’s appointment is wcl coined everywhere.