( However, it became very clear in a conversation between Scullin and King George V's Private Secretary, Lord Stamfordham, on 11 November 1930, that this was merely the official reason for the objection, the real reason being that an Australian, no matter how highly regarded personally, was not considered appropriate to be Governor-General.

* if a Prime Minister advises a dissolution of Parliament on the occasion of a deadlock between the Houses, the Governor-General may refuse that request

After Scullin's defeat in 1931, non-Labor governments continued to recommend British people for appointment as Governor-General, but it was still a matter solely between the Australian government and the monarch.

All communication between the Australian colonies and the British Government was meant to go through the Governor-General, and the other colonies had Lieutenant-Governors.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

This was rejected by the Khan of Kalat who, upset by the claim, issued a communiqué: " On the night of March 27, All India Radio, Delhi announced that two months ago Kalat State had approached the Indian Union to accept its accession to India and that the Indian Union had rejected the request … It had never been my intention to accede to India … It is, therefore, declared that from 9 pm on March 27th – the time when I heard the false news over the air, I forthwith decide to accede to Pakistan, and that whatever differences now exist between Kalat and Pakistan be placed in writing before Mr Jinnah, the Governor-General of Pakistan, whose decision I shall accept ".

A government that is unable to obtain supply can be dismissed by the Governor-General: however, this is generally considered a last resort and is a highly controversial decision to take, given the conflict between the traditional concept of confidence as derived from the lower house and the ability of the Senate to block supply.

Twice since Federation, conflicts between state premiers and state governors, who perform similar functions to the Prime Minister and Governor-General at the state level, had resulted in the departure of one or the other.

The report examined the contest between minimalist and direct-election models and gave attention to hybrid models such as the Electoral College Model, the Constitutional Council Model and models having both an elected President and a Governor-General.

After the election, if the House again passes the bill, but the deadlock between the Houses persists, then the Governor-General may convene a joint sitting of both Houses, where a final decision will be taken on the bill.

In a letter sent to Maharajah Hari Singh on 27 October 1947, the then Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten accepted the accession with a remark, “ it is my Government's wish that as soon as law and order have been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people .” Lord Mountbatten ’ s remark and the offer made by the Government of India to conduct a plebiscite or referendum to determine the future status of Kashmir led to a dispute between India and Pakistan regarding the legality of the accession of Kashmir to India.

He was also Governor-General of Canada between 1888 and 1893.

He was thrice First Lord of the Admiralty and also served as Governor-General of India between 1836 and 1842.

** Government House, Melbourne in Victoria ; between 1901 and 1930 used by the Governor-General

He was viceroy of the short-lived Anglo-Corsican Kingdom from 1793 to 1796 and went on to become Governor-General of India between 1807 and 1813.

The Act was the first law to distinguish between the executive and legislative responsibilities of the Governor-General.

With the Tophane Act, Sultan Abdul Hamid II appointed the Prince of Bulgaria ( without mentioning the name of the incumbent prince Alexander of Bulgaria ) as Governor-General of Eastern Rumelia, thus retaining the formal distinction between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia and preserving the letter of the Berlin Treaty.

Governor-General of Finland (); was the military commander and the highest administrator of Finland sporadically under Swedish rule in the 17th and 18th centuries and continuously in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland between 1808 and 1917.

* Address of His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada on the subject of the relations between the Dominion government and British Columbia, in respect to the Canadian Pacific Railway: delivered at Government House, Victoria, Sept. 20th, 1876, to a deputation of the reception committee, publ.

Franz Albert Seyn () ( July 27, 1862-summer of 1918 ) was a Russian general who was Governor-General of Finland between November 24, 1909 and March 16, 1917.

Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil ( 1762 – 23 February 1831 ) ( Фаддей Фёдорович Штейнгель, Faddei Fjodorovitš Šteingel ) was a Russian military officer, and the Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824.

The very short turnaround between the decision to make the award and its announcement meant that the Governor-General of Barbados was not informed of the award before the public announcement, which caused some hurt feelings between London and Bridgetown.

He was four times President of the Board of Control and also served as Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844.

They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).

When her husband was appointed in 1830 to administer the government of Canada, as Governor-General, from February 1831 to August 1835, the couple entertained at the Castle of St. Louis, Quebec.

In 1831, Menshikov held the post of Governor-General of Finland.

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.

Until Victoria obtained responsible government in 1855, the Governor-General of New South Wales appointed Lieutenant-Governors to Victoria.

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC ( 6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948 ) was an Australian judge and politician, the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post.

In 1855, Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India issued a Memorandum of the Government of India dated 3-8-1855.

* Timothy Michael Healy ( 1855 – 1931 ), Irish parliamentary politician, later Governor-General of the Irish Free State

* 26 March-Timothy Michael Healy, Nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and first Governor-General of the Irish Free State ( born 1855 ).

He was Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 1855 to 1860, and Gehejmekonferensraad from 1860.

1855, he received the thanks of the Governor-General, Lord Dalhousie,

It is named after Isaac Isaacs ( 1855 – 1948 ), politician, Chief Justice and the first Australian born Governor-General ( from 1931 – 36 ).

While he opened the colony's first railway in 1855, he ignored the problem of different rail gauges despite his role as Governor-General, although he was more active in developing arrangements for paying for postal connections with the United Kingdom, ameliorating inter-colonial tariffs and co-operation over the provision of lighthouses.

Suggestions during the early 1980s that the Prince of Wales might become the Governor-General came to nothing due to the constitutional difficulty that would be created if Prince Charles became King.

In 2007, it was reported in the media that Prince William might also become Governor-General.

* June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia ( b. 1900 )

Billy Hughes, John Curtin, and the Governor-General of Australia Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in Canberra, 1945 Billy Hughes in 1945 aged 83, seven years before his deathBust of Billy Hughes by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Billy Hughes, John Curtin, and Governor-General of Australia | Governor-General Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in Canberra, 1945

On 5 July 1945 Curtin died ; as Deputy Leader, Forde was sworn in as Prime Minister on 6 July by the Governor-General, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

When Prince Richard was four months old, he accompanied his parents to Australia, where his father was Governor-General from 1945 to 1947.

From 10 November 1947 until 24 November 1947, Rajaji served as Acting Governor-General of India in the absence of the Governor-General Lord Mountbatten, who was on leave in England to attend the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Mountbatten's nephew Prince Philip.

As a compromise, he sent his six-year-old son Prince Norinaga to Mutsu province ( the eastern part of today's Tōhoku region, stretching from Fukushima Prefecture in the south to Aomori Prefecture in the north ) and nominated him Governor-General of the Mutsu and Dewa provinces.

During the period of Bulgarian annexation Georgi Stranski was appointed as a Commissioner for South Bugaria ( 9 September 1885-5 April 1886 ), and when the province was restored to nominal Ottoman sovereignty, but still under Bulgarian control, the Prince of Bulgaria was recognized by the Sublime Porte as the Governor-General.

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.

Prince William spent his early childhood at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire and later in Australia, where his father served as Governor-General from 1945 to 1947.

In 1810 he was appointed as the Governor-General of Finland, to succeed Prince Michael Andrew Barclay de Tolly.

** Prince ‘ Abul Naser Sultan Sam Mirza ( 28 August 1518-December 1567 ) Governor-General of Khorasan 1521-1529 and 1532 – 1534, and of Ardabil 1549-1571.

Both fathers, however, objected ; Prince Philip complaining that the Prince of Wales would be eclipsed by his famous uncle ( who had served as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General of India ), while Lord Brabourne warned that a joint visit would rivet media attention on the cousins before they could decide on becoming a couple, thereby potentially dashing the very prospect for which Mountbatten hoped.

The emperor ruled as the Grand Prince of Finland and was represented in Finland by the Governor-General of Finland.

On 1 October 1948 the annexation was made official when Governor-General Gideon Brand van Zyl signed the Prince Edward Islands Act, 1948.

The cemetery was then dedicated in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Kent, Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce, and a minister, a priest and a rabbi.

As a compromise, he sent his six-year-old son Prince Norinaga to Mutsu province ( in today's Aomori region ) and nominated him Governor-General of the Mutsu and Dewa provinces.