Francis Newdegate

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Francis Newdegate

Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate (born December 13, 1862 in London , † January 2, 1936 in Nuneaton , England ) was a British politician and Governor of Tasmania and Western Australia .

Life

Newdegate was born in 1862 in Chelsea , London, to Lieutenant Colonel Francis William Newdigate and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Agnes Sophia . He took the surname Newdegate in 1902 on the basis of a will from his uncle. Newdegate attended Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . From 1885 to 1887 he made a trip through several colonies of the British Empire , which took him to India and Australia . In 1888 he married Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot.

From 1892 to 1917 Newdegate was a member of the House of Lords for Nuneaton and Tamworth . On March 30, 1917, he was appointed governor of Tasmania. His three-year term of office was largely uneventful. Like his two predecessors in the office of Tasmanian Governor, he was subsequently appointed Governor of Western Australia. He founded the airmail service North-West air mail service and was on the first flight itself on board. He made several long journeys and supported the settlement plans of his Prime Minister James Mitchell .

On June 16, 1924, Newdegate left Australia after his term in office and returned to England. He died there on January 2, 1936.

The town of Newdegate in Western Australia is named after him.

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SURNAME Newdegate, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newdegate, Francis Alexander Newdigate (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and Governor of Tasmania and Western Australia
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1936
Place of death Nuneaton , England