Dominick Daly

Sir Dominick Daly

Sir Dominick Daly (born August 11, 1798 in Ardfry , County Galway , Ireland , † February 19, 1868 in Adelaide , South Australia , Australia ) was a British politician and colonial governor .

biography

After attending school, he entered the service of the British colonial administration and in 1823 became private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada , Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton . In 1827 he was appointed provincial secretary of Lower Canada. According to the Act of Union of 1840, by which the previous provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were united to form the province of Canada in 1841 , he ran for the provincial parliament in the constituency of Mégantic and was then secretary of the province of Canada and a member of the executive council from 1841 to 1848.

In this capacity, Daly was also a member of the governments of the Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada William Henry Draper and Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine between 1842 and 1843 , but, unlike the rest of the cabinet members, did not resign on November 27, 1843, making him the only minister remained in office and served as acting Prime Minister until the formation of a new cabinet on December 12, 1843 by Draper.

In 1852 he was first governor of Tobago . On July 11, 1854, he was appointed lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island . He held this office until May 25, 1859. During this time he was raised to the nobility in 1856 as a Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

His last appointment was on March 4, 1862, as governor of South Australia . He became the first Catholic governor in Australia, and that in the colony there with the lowest proportion of Catholics. He held this office until his death.

The Daly River in Australia is named after him.

Web links

• Marjorie Findlay: Daly, Sir Dominick (1798–1868) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).