Francis Newdegate

For the British peer, seeFrancis FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry.

Sir Francis Newdegate GCMGGCStJ
12thGovernor of Tasmania
In office 30 March 1917 – 9 February 1920
Monarch	George V
Premier	Walter Lee
Preceded by	Sir William Ellison-Macartney
Succeeded by	Sir William Lamond Allardyce
18thGovernor of Western Australia
In office 9 April 1920 – 16 June 1924
Monarch	George V
Premier	James Mitchell Philip Collier
Preceded by	Sir William Ellison-Macartney
Succeeded by	Sir William Campion
Personal details
Born	31 December 1862(1862-12-31) Chelsea, London,England
Died	2 January 1936(1936-01-03)(aged 73) Nuneaton,Warwickshire,England
Spouse	Hon. Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot

Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate,GCMGGCStJ(31 December 1862 – 2 January 1936) was an EnglishConservative Partypolitician. After over twenty years in theHouse of Commons,he served asGovernorofTasmaniafrom 1917 to 1920, andGovernor of Western Australiafrom 1920 to 1924.

Early life and family

Born in 1862, he was the son ofLieutenant ColonelFrancis William Newdigate and his first wife Charlotte Elizabeth Agnes Sophia Woodford, and grandson ofFrancis Parker Newdigate.He was educated atEtonand theRoyal Military College, Sandhurst,and was commissioned into theGrenadier Guardsin 1883. He married Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot on 13 October 1888.

Newdegate inherited estates atArbury Hall,nearNuneatonand atHarefield,nearUxbridge,on the death of his father in 1893, and uncleSir Edward Newdegatein 1902. He assumed the additional surname "Newdegate", differently spelt, under the terms of the will of a kinsmanCharles Newdigate Newdegate,in September 1902.In 1911 he erected, at Arbury Hall, a monument to the memory ofGeorge Eliot,whose father had been employed on the Arbury estate.

Career

Newdegate wasMember of ParliamentforNuneatonfrom 1892 to 1906, and forTamworthfrom 1909 to 1917. He was on 14 February 1917 appointedSteward of the Manor of Northstead,a mechanism for resigning from the House of Commons, on his appointment asGovernorofTasmania.

Newdegate was appointed aKnight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St Georgein 1917 upon his appointment asGovernorofTasmania(1917 to 1920). He was appointedGovernor of Western Australiain 1920 where he served until 1924. On retirement he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of theOrder of St Michael and St Georgein 1925. The Western Australian town ofNewdegateis named after him.

Later life and death

Newdegate was appointedHigh Steward of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfieldin 1925. On his death in 1936 his estates passed to his daughter Lucia, who in 1919, had marriedJohn Maurice Fitzroy,father of the 3rdViscount Daventry.

Personal life

He was a friend ofSir Alexander Russell Downer,who built a large home and gardens in theAdelaide HillsinSouth Australiaand named itArbury Parkafter the Newdigate family home.

See also

• Newdigate family

External links

• Hansard1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Francis Newdegate
• Portraits of Francis Newdegateat theNational Portrait Gallery, London
• http:// irsociety.co.uk/Archives/47/Griff.htm
• http://thepeerage /p6293.htm
• http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110008b.htm