The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

At Sir Te's estate, Shu Lien meets Jen ( Zhang Ziyi ), the daughter of Governor Yu ( Fa Zeng Li ), a visiting Manchu aristocrat.

In July 1600 Oxford wrote requesting Sir Robert Cecil's help in securing an appointment as Governor of the Isle of Jersey, once again citing the Queen's unfulfilled promises to him.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

In 1975, Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam recommended to the Queen that Sir Colin Hannah, then Governor of Queensland, have his dormant commission revoked for having made public political statements.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

Sir John Northcott, the first Australian-born person appointed as Governor ( 1946 – 1957 ). The governor is required by the Constitution Act, 1902.

Sir Eric Woodward, the first New South Wales-born person appointed as Governor ( 1957 – 65 )

Coincidentally the first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott on 1 August 1946, was also the first Australian-born Governor of any state.

" The State's longest serving Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, was also reported as saying: " It's a political push to make way in New South Wales to lead the push for a republic.

The first Australian-( and Victorian -) born Governor of Victoria was Sir Henry Winneke ( appointed 1974 ).

On Victoria obtaining responsible government in May 1855, the title of the then incumbent Lieutenant-Governor, Captain Sir Charles Hotham, became Governor.

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

* 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1895 )

But he was soon back at sea and attracted the attention of Alexander Spotswood, the Governor of Virginia.

* 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia ( d. 1883 )

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

The Governor of South Australia, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, who was in England at the time, expressed his concern to British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs James Henry Thomas that this would cause a significant impact on trade between the nations.

Governor Alexander Beatson ( 1808 – 1813 ) took action to reduce drunkenness by prohibiting the public sale of spirits and the importation of cheap Indian spirits.

* Lamar Alexander, former Governor of Tennessee

File: Lamar Alexander 2. jpg | Former Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

King ( back left ) with ( counterclockwise from King ) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone and Winston Churchill during the Quebec conference in 1943.

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

* July – Cary's Rebellion: Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spottswood of Virginia dispatches a company of Royal marines to assist Governor Hyde.

* November 22 – Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, Virginia Governor Alexander Spottswood sends a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina, where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in Ocracoke Inlet.

In 1841, Hudson Bay Company Governor George Simpson ordered Alexander Ross to organize a party of Red River settlers to emigrate and occupy the land for Britain.

It was first used in the flags of Alexander Ypsilantis, and was chosen as the official emblem of the Provisional Government ( 1828 – 1832 ) by Governor John Capodistria, who also named the first modern Greek currency " phoenix ".

Alexander Abramov, became the first Governor of the Military Okrug which the Russians established along the course of the Zeravshan River, with Samarkand as the administrative centre.

Nearby stood the military barracks and the country houses ( dacha ) of the city's wealthy residents, including that of the Duc de Richelieu, appointed by Tsar Alexander I as Governor of Odessa in 1803.

He abolished taxes for a year, rode unarmed through the streets and bazaars meeting common people, and appointed himself " Military Governor of Tashkent ", recommending to Tsar Alexander II that the city be made an independent khanate under Russian protection.

Sir Alexander Ball led Maltese insurgents against the French in the 1798 uprising, and went on to become the first British Governor of Malta.

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

In October 1917, City Council of Częstochowa demanded permission to destroy the monument of Tsar Alexander II, to which General Governor of Warsaw Hans Hartwig von Beseler agreed.

Most of them settled in West Germany, some ended up in East Germany and a significant minority emigrated to Canada starting in 1948 with the support of Canadian Governor General The Earl Alexander of Tunis, who had known many Baltic Germans during his time that he commanded the Baltic German Landeswehr.

In the legislature Kent accused Governor Sir Alexander Bannerman and the opposition Conservatives of conspiring with the judges against the government.

* Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Alexander Bannerman

Together with his wife, Margaret Gordon the grand daughter of former Governor Walter Patterson, Bannerman returned to the colony of her birth, when he took up the appointment in 1851 as governor of Prince Edward Island.