Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet

Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, about 1926

Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet GCMG GCB DSO MVO (born January 17, 1865 in Edinburgh ; † February 20, 1951 in Ayrshire , Scotland ) was a British officer, most recently General , Military Governor in Cologne and from 1924 to 1930 the 3rd Governor General from New Zealand .

Early years

Fergusson was born in Edinburgh on January 17, 1865, the eldest son of Edith Christian and Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet . He received his education at Eton College and his military training at Sandhurst .

Military career

In 1883 he came to the Grenadier Guards as a lieutenant , served in Egypt in the Anglo-Egyptian army from 1895 and was involved in fighting in Sudan from 1896 to 1898 . For his work in the Mahdi uprising he received the Egyptian Medal with seven clasps and the Distinguished Service Order , was Mentioned in Despatches five times and was promoted to Brevet - Colonel . After the end of the uprising, he was appointed adjutant-general of the Egyptian army in 1900.

From 1904 he commanded a battalion of the Grenadier Guards in the mother country and in 1907 was promoted to Brigadier General on the staff of the Irish Command . In the following year he was promoted to major-general and held the post of inspector of the infantry from 1909 to 1912. From the beginning of 1913 he commanded the 5th Division stationed in Ireland and in 1914 showed diplomatic skills in resolving a conflict over a misinterpreted marching order in the British Army camp in Curragh .

With the 5th Division Fergusson moved in 1914 as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France in the First World War . From October to December 1914 he commanded the 9th (Scottish) Division , from January 1915 the II and from May 1916 until the end of the war the XVII. Army Corps. After the end of the war, he was military governor in occupied Cologne from 1918 to 1920 . In 1922 he took his leave with the rank of general.

State Office

After the failed attempt to win the election in South Ayrshire for the Unionists in 1923 , Fergusson was proposed for the post of Governor General in New Zealand. His father was Governor of New Zealand from 1873 to 1874. He took office on December 20, 1924. After the end of his tenure, which ended on February 8, 1930, he went back to Great Britain , chaired the West Indies Closer Union Commission from 1933 and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire in 1937 , which he did until a year before his Death remained.

He died in Ayrshire on February 20, 1951.

family

On July 18, 1901, he married Alice Mary Boyle , second daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow . The marriage resulted in a daughter and four sons, including Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae , who was raised to life peer and was Governor General of New Zealand from 1962 to 1967.

His title of nobility, Baronet , of Kilkerran in the County of Ayr, which he inherited on the death of his father in 1907, passed on to his eldest son James as the 8th baronet.

Awards

• 1898 - Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
• 1906 - Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
• 1911 - Companion, Order of the Bath (CB)
• 1915 - Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (KCB)
• 1918 - Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG)
• 1924 - Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG)
• 1932 - Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (GCB)

literature

• Bernard John Foster : FERGUSSON, General Sir Charles, GCB, GCMG, DSO, MVO, LL.D. (Glasgow), Bt. . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed December 15, 2015]).
• Gavin McLean : The Governors - New Zealand's Governors and Governors-General . Otago University Press , Dunedin 2006, ISBN 978-1-877372-25-4 , pp. 203-208 (English).
• Francis Dodd : Generals of the British Army . Portraits in Color with Introductory and Biographical Notes . Library of Alexandria , 1916 (English).

Web links

Commons : Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• General Sir Charles Fergusson, Bt., GCMG, KCB, DSO, MVO . The Governor-General,accessed January 28, 2015. 
• Sir Charles Fergusson . New Zealand History,accessed January 28, 2015(Photo byFergusson1925 at the opening of Parliament). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} John Harding, GEJ Gent : The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List for 1936 . Waterlow & Sons , London 1936 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} O'Moore Creagh, EM Humphris : The VC and DSO . Standard Art Book Co. , London 1924 (English, a complete record of all important persons in the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force ).

predecessor	Office	successor
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe	Governor General of New Zealand December 20, 1924 - February 8, 1930	Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe