LORD PLUNKET'S SUCCESSOR.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12765, 11 April 1910, Page 2

LORD PLUNKET'S SUCCESSOR.

SIR J. DICKSON-POYNDER

APPOINTED.

[United Pkess Association.]

.. , Wellington, April 10. Sir John - Dickson-Poynder succeeds Lord Plunket- as Governor of New Zealand, i. . „.iijffi&_

Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder was born in 1866, and is the sixth baronet, liaving succeeded his uncle in the title, which was created in 1802, in 1881. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, aud entered the Army as a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment Royal Scots. On succeeding, in TS3l,' to his maternal uncle's property, he assumed the name of Poyn T der. On leaving the Army he became a major of the Wolts Yeomanry, and served during the last South African war, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and gaining the Queen's Medal with three clasps. Sir John Dickson-Poynder has had considerable experience in parliamentary life, having represented the Chippenham Div•ision of Wiltshire as a Conservative since 1892 till the dissolution of the last Parliament, when he did net seek re-election. He is a member of the London County Council. He married in 1896 the daughter of Mr R. H. D. Dundas. Sir John and Lady DicksonPoynder have one daughter.