New Zealand to India
OW many listeners know that New Zealand provided India with one of its Governors? Yet a New Zealander actually did achieve that distinction. Sir William Sinclair Marris, K.C.S.1., K.C.LE., was at one time a schoolmate of Lord He got his preliminary education at Wanganui and Canterbury College and finished off at Christ Church, Oxford. He went to India in 1896, and at the end of the Boer War was loaned to the Transvaal Government on account of his administrative ability to help evolve order following the change of Government. After returning to India he was successively Home Secretary, Governor of Assam, and later Governor of the United Provinces. A little over twelve years ago he was appointed to the Council of India. Returning to England, he became head of Armstrong College, Newcastle, attached to Durham University. Sir William Marris’s hobby is translating the classics, and he has published several volumes of his translations--("New Zealand Brains Abroad," by Bernard Magee and Major F. H. Lampen, 2YA).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 5
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169New Zealand to India New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 5
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