Shortly after the `` Vale '' incident, a rift began to develop between William Woodruff and Governor Pope.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

The current Governor is William Boyd McCleary ( since 2010 ).

Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including Governor William J.

He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart ( Slim Pickens ), to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

In 1908, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by William Howard Taft, but he declined it to run again for Governor.

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1771 )

* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

* 1859 – William Stephens, American politician and 24th Governor of California ( d. 1944 )

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.

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.

In Canada, a similar situation took place in 1925 wherein Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy appointed Arthur Meighen after William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to resign the premiership ( known as the King-Byng Affair ).

Governor Charles Drayton, grandson of South Carolina Governor William Bull.

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.

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Governor William Sayle prepared for the uprising with three edicts: the first was that a nightly watch be raised throughout the colony ; second, that slaves and the Irish be disarmed of militia weapons ; and third, that any gathering of two or more Irish or slaves be dispersed by whipping.

* 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1940 )

She was the daughter of Margaret L. Kempe and William Burr Howell, and the granddaughter of the late New Jersey Governor Richard Howell and his wife Keziah.

* 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $ 100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

* 1818 – William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1905 )

Governor Tryon and the Boys exchanged threats, truce offers, and other writings, which were frequently written by Allen in florid and didactic language, while the Boys continued to drive surveyors and incoming tenants on New York-granted lands away.

The outrage of the Wentworth proprietors was renewed in 1774 when Governor Tryon passed a law containing harsh provisions clearly targeted at the actions of the " Bennington Mob ".

* March – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon raises a militia to put down the long running uprising of backcountry militias against North Carolina's colonial government.

* March 12 – The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County ( named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon ) from portions of Cumberland, Johnston and Orange counties.

* May 11 – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon marches his militia out of Hillsborough to come to the aid of General Hugh Waddell's beleaguered forces.

* May 16 – War of the Regulation: The Battle of Alamance commences after Regulators reject an appeal by Governor Tryon to peacefully disperse.

Lane named Wake County in honor of Margaret Wake, wife of colonial Governor William Tryon.

It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771.

It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon.

follows: " The British generals ... repaired to the house of a Mr. Robert Murray, a Quaker and friend of our cause ; Mrs. Murray treated them with cake and wine, and they were induced to tarry two hours or more, Governor Tryon frequently joking her about her American friends.

The community which has grown into the Town of Clayton was built on a road cut blazed by Governor Tryon ’ s troops around 1770 as they marched North from New Bern to Hillsborough against the Regulators.

Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are named for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 in recognition of his negotiation with the Cherokee for a treaty during a bloody period of the French and Indian War.

In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina ( 1765 — 1771 ), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of western North Carolina, traveled to the area and negotiated peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a location near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain ( renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers ).

Map of Polk County, North Carolina with Municipal and Township labelsIn 1839 a post office was established at the base of Tryon peak, both named after Governor Tryon.

On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut was burned by the British Tories under Governor Tryon.

During the revolutionary war — on April 25, 1777 a 1, 850 strong British force under the command of the Royal Governor of the Province of New York, Major General William Tryon landed on Compo Beach to demolish the Continental Army ’ s military supplies in Danbury.

The latest Indians, the Seneca named Wellsville " Gistaguat " according to a map produced in 1771 by Guy Johnson, as the official map of New York State at the time, for then Governor William Tryon.

As the area initially owned and settled by Johnson grew, he convinced the Governor, Lord William Tryon, to establish a new county in upstate New York west of Albany County.

As Deputy Attorney General in 1768 Hooper worked with Colonial Governor William Tryon to suppress a rebellious group known as the Regulators who participated in the War of the Regulation.

Hooper advised that Governor Tryon use as much force as was necessary to stamp out the rebels, and even accompanied the troops at the Battle of Alamance in 1771.

Hooper ’ s support of the colonial governments began to erode, causing problems for him due to his past support of Governor Tryon.