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Author: J. Davis McCaughey Publisher: Melbourne University Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 498
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The stories of the achievements, friends and adversaries, changing roles and expectations, imagery and daily life of each of the Colonial Governors of Victoria starting with La Trobe in 1839 to 1854 and ending up with Lord Brassey who held the position from 1895 to 1900.
Author: J. Davis McCaughey Publisher: Melbourne University Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 498
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The stories of the achievements, friends and adversaries, changing roles and expectations, imagery and daily life of each of the Colonial Governors of Victoria starting with La Trobe in 1839 to 1854 and ending up with Lord Brassey who held the position from 1895 to 1900.
Author: David Clune Publisher: Federation Press ISBN: 9781862877436 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 732
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This book contains biographical accounts of all 37 Governors of New South Wales from Arthur Phillip in 1788 to Marie Bashir.Highlights of the book include John Hunter's amazing sea voyages, the erratic career of the 'devious and foul-tempered' William Bligh, the highly public clashes of Sir Hercules Robinson (nicknamed the 'Crisis maker') with Governments and Parliament, the 'Boy's Own' Naval career of the swashbuckling Sir Harry Rawson, the extraordinary double life of Lord Beauchamp and the dramatic events surrounding Sir Philip Game's dismissal of Jack Lang.Leading historians such as Brian Fletcher, JM Bennett, Geoffrey Bolton, Graham Freudenberg, Anne Twomey, Chris Cunneen, Ian Hancock, Evan Williams and Rodney Cavalier tell of both extraordinary lives and the political and constitutional crises many had to face.
Author: Stephanie Williams Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141041218 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 672
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'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions'. So wrote Hugh Clifford, in his best selling novel, Saleh, written while he was acting governor of Trinidad, in 1904.
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