EARL OF BESSBOROUGH

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 9

EARL OF BESSBOROUGH

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA

APPOINTMENT APPROVED

(British Offlcltl Wireless.) (Eeceived 10th February, 11 a.m.) BUGBY, 9th February. The Kiug has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Earl of Bessborough to be Governor-General of Canada iv succession to Lord Willingdon, who is to succeed Lord Irwin. as Viceroy of India. V "Lord Bessborough, who is 50, lias a wide business experience, and was called to tho Bar twenty-seven years ago. Before succeeding his father, the eighth Earl, he sat in the House of Cominon3 as Unionist member for Cheltenham j and afterwards for Dover. During the war he served in Gallipoli and France. He married ; a Frenchwoman, tho daughter of Baron de Neuflize, and he and his family have organised one of the leading amateur dramatic societies in England. Since the war he developod many business interests. . The ninth" Earl of Bessborough sits-i in the House of Lords as Baron Ponsonby. He is a Bachelor of Arts of Cambridge University, and barrister-at-; law, and was M.P. for Dover from 1913 to 1920, and also for Cheltenham in 1910. He'was a captain, in the Territorial Force,'but is on the retired list. During the Great War he served in Gallipoli and in France as a major attached to Headquarters Staff. He is a director of the Underground Electric Railways, chairman of the San Paulo (Brazilian) Railway, and deputy-chair-man of De Beers Consolidated Mines,' Ltd. In 1912 he married Mile. Roberte do Neuflize, daughter, of the »'late Baron Neuflize. The- Earl, who holds Orders of France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, and Greece, as well as the C.M.G., is 50 years of ago. , "'..',