Charles Barclay-Harvey

Charles Barclay-Harvey

Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey (born March 2, 1890 in London , England , † November 17, 1969 ibid) was a conservative British politician and governor of the Australian state of South Australia .

Life

After studying at Eton College and Christ Church , Oxford , he joined the army in 1909. In 1915 he was classified as unusable due to a war injury and took a position in the British Ministry of Munitions .

After the war he was a member of the House of Commons from 1923 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1936 . During this time he worked for the representative of the English crown in Scotland ( secretary of state ).

In the spring of 1939 he was appointed governor of South Australia and took office on August 12 of the same year in Adelaide . His tenure was marked by the Second World War , and he tried to support the war effort as best he could. In 1941 the corvette HMAS Whyalla was launched at the newly established naval shipyard in Whyalla and christened by his wife Muriel. Barclay-Harvey, a great railway enthusiast, published a book on the history of the Scottish Railway ( A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway , London, 1940) in 1940, which was published in three editions.

Due to health problems, Barclay-Harvey resigned on April 26, 1944 and returned to his estate in Scotland. From 1945 to 1955 he was a member of Aberdeenshire County Council . In 1964 he was named Prior of the Order of Saint John for Scotland. He died in London on November 17, 1969.

Awards

• Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (1939)

literature

• John Playford: Barclay-Harvey, Sir Charles Malcolm (1890-1969) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).