Philip Game

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game was a British airforce commander and later a highly controversial government administrator in Australia. He was born on 30 March 1876.

He was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1930, serving until 1935. He was present at the official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

On 13 May 1932 he dismissed the Labour Government of Jack Lang for refusing to abandon an apparently illegal policy and issuing a leaflet in defiance of Game. This was the only case of an Australian government with the confidence of the lower house being dismissed by a Vice-Regal representative, until Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam's government on 11 November 1975.

After his term ended, Game returned to Britain, and died on 4 February 1961.