Day Bosanquet

Day Bosanquet

Sir Day Hort Bosanquet (born March 22, 1843 in Alnwick , England , † June 28, 1923 Newbury ) was a British admiral and governor of the Australian state of South Australia .

Life

Bosanquet, son of the pastor Robert William Bosanquet and brother of the philosopher Bernard Bosanquet , joined the Royal Navy in 1857 and took part in the conquest of Canton during the Second Opium War in the same year . He made a career in the Navy, was promoted to sea captain in 1882 and to rear admiral in 1897 . From 1899 to 1902 he was commander-in-chief of the English troops in the West Indies , where he fought, among other things, the ongoing slave trade. He was then promoted to Vice Admiral . In the period from 1904 to 1907 he directed the English troops in North America and the West Indies.

After retiring from the army, Bosanquet was appointed governor of South Australia in 1909. A few weeks after his arrival, the sick Prime Minister Thomas Price died . As his successor, John Verran was elected the next Prime Minister in 1910 . A budget crisis fell during his tenure in 1911, as a result of which Bosanquet dissolved parliament and Archibald Peake became the new prime minister. Bosanquet demanded access from South Australia to the Murray River as an important source of drinking water during border disputes with the neighboring state of Victoria . During his tenure also fell the separation of the Northern Territory from South Australia, as the compensation of which he enforced the construction of a railway line between Oodnadatta and Pine Creek .

In 1914 Bonsanquet returned to England. After his son fell in World War I in 1916 , he sold the family property in Herefordshire and moved to Newbury. He died there on June 28, 1923.

Awards

• Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1905)
• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1907)
• Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (1914)

literature

• PA Howell: Bosanquet, Sir Day Hort (1843-1923) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).