LORD DENMAN.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINT-, MENT CONFIRMED. United Proas Association—By Electrio . Telegraph—Copyright. /"" (Received March 4, 8.5 a.m.) 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 fax the Commonwealth at the end oi June.
1 Lord Denman is the third Baron (the 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 ltuyal Military College at Sandhurst, and became a lieutenant in the Royal Scots. In the South African war he served as captain commanding the 86th', (Middlesex) Squadron of Imperial Yeomahv), and was wounded. Lord Denman is a -Lord-in-Waiting' to his Majesty the Kina' captain, of the Honorary Corps of Gcntlenien-at-Arms , and Deputy-Speaker of the House of Lords. He married, in 1903, Gertrude, ' Mary, a daughter of Lord Cowdray (bettor 'kuowri as Sir t Weetman Pear-' for many years Liberal member of the House of Commons for Colchester). There is one ,child of the marriage (the' Hon Thomas Denman), born in 1905.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10092, 4 March 1911, Page 6
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