Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.

In recognition of this victory, Amherst was appointed Governor-General of British North America in September 1760 and promoted to major-general on 29 November 1760.

The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Governor-General of British North America, London: Ridgways, Piccadilly ( online )

* 1940-1941 — Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa and Governor-General of Libya

Carleton County, in turn, was named in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, an early Governor-General of British North America.

Although the War of the Austrian Succession was indecisive – despite French successes in India under the French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix and Europe under Marshal Saxe – the Seven Years ' War, after early French successes in Minorca and North America, saw a French defeat, with the numerically superior British ( over one million to about 50 thousand French settlers ) conquering not only New France ( excluding the small islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ), but also most of France's West Indian ( Caribbean ) colonies, and all of the French Indian outposts.

Italo Balbo ( Ferrara, June 6, 1896 – Tobruk, June 28, 1940 ) was an Italian Blackshirt ( Camicie Nere, or CCNN ) leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force ( Maresciallo dell ' Aria ), Governor-General of Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa ( Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI ), and the " heir apparent " to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

At the time of the Italian declaration of war on 10 June 1940, Balbo was the Governor-General of Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa ( Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI ).

Tasman also named the northern tip of the North Island Cape Maria van Diemen, after the wife of Anthony van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ).

By the Treaty of Bhairowal ( 1846 ), he was made the Resident at Lahore as well as Agent to the Governor-General for the North West Frontier.

On November 16, 1960, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, became the first Governor-General of a Federation of three Regions of the North, East and West, with Lagos as the Federal Capital.

The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Governor-General of British North America, London: Ridgways, Piccadilly, 1839, 423 p. ( online )

The family accompanied their parents to Canada, on the appointment of Sir Charles Bagot as Governor-General of British North America on 12 January 1842.

The family accompanied their parents to Canada on the appointment of Sir Charles Bagot as Governor-General of British North America, on 12 January 1842.

Both armies were commanded overall by the Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa and Governor-General of Italian Libya, the charismatic Marshal of the Air Force ( Maresciallo dell ' Aria ) Italo Balbo.

With Italy exerting further control over its North African holdings, including the appointment of Marshal of the Air Force Italo Balbo as Governor-General and the joining of Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania into a single colony, Libya, the event gained even more spectacle.

| John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor-General of British North America

** American Governor-General of the Philippines

The honorific for the President of the Philippines is " Your Excellency " or " His / Her Excellency ", adopted from the title of the Governor-General of the Philippines during Spanish and American occupation.

Amherst becomes the First British Governor-General of territories that would later become Canada plus lands ( Ohio Country and Illinois Country ) west of the American Colonies.

She was also the great-granddaughter on her father's side of Oakes Ames ( 1804 – 1873 ), an industrialist and congressman who was impeached in the Crédit Mobilier railroad scandal of 1872 ; and Governor-General of New Orleans Benjamin Franklin Butler, an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts.

When the Philippines came under American rule following the Spanish-American War, Malacañan Palace became the residence of the American Governor-General.

In that post, he would frequently clash with the American Governor-General Leonard Wood, and eventually, in 1923, resign from his position together with other Cabinet members in protest of Wood's administration.

He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico ( 1929 – 32 ), Governor-General of the Philippines ( 1932 – 33 ), Chairman of the Board of American Express Company, and Vice-President at Doubleday Books, and as a Brigadier General in the United States Army.

However, in 1926 the municipality of Hernani regained back the township by virtue of an Executive Order issued by then American Governor-General Leonardo Wood.

In Burke's political career, he vigorously defended constitutional limitation of the Crown's authority, denounced the religious persecution of Catholics in his native Ireland, voiced the grievances of Britain's American colonies, supported American Independence, and vigorously pursued impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of British India, for corruption and abuse of power.

Francis Burton Harrison ( December 18, 1873 – November 21, 1957 ) was an American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and appointed Governor-General of the Philippines by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson.

Laua-an was truly recognized as municipality on January 1, 1915 pursuant to Executive Order No. 129 issued by then American Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison.

Prior to independence in 1946, that cabinet portfolio was Secretary of Public Instruction, which had once been reserved only for the Vice Governor-General ( an American ).

He was the last Viceroy of India ( 1947 ) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India ( 1947 – 48 ), from which the modern Republic of India emerged in 1950.

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 ".

In 1946, Rajaji was appointed Minister of Industry, Supply, Education and Finance in the Interim Government of India, and then as the Governor of West Bengal from 1947 to 1948, Governor-General of India from 1948 to 1950, Union Home Minister from 1951 to 1952 and as Chief Minister of Madras state from 1952 to 1954.

La Uni &# 243 ; n, " The Union " in Spanish, was formed in 1850 when the Spanish colonial government of Governor-General Antonio Maria Blanco merged the southern towns of Ilocos Sur province, the northern towns of Pangasinan, and the western towns of Benguet to the east.

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.

The position of Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was accordingly abolished.

The Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was the representative of the British ( 1910 – 1931 ) and later South African Crown ( 1931 – 1961 ) in the Union of South Africa between 31 May 1910 and 31 May 1961.

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Charles Robberts Swart ( 5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982 ) served as the last Governor-General of Union of South Africa from 1960 to 1961 and the first State President of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967.

BRUNT FUN ZAIL, rhymes with nail ) ( 1873 – 1956 ) was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1945 to 1950.

The Union of Arras ( Dutch: Unie van Atrecht ) was an accord signed on 6 January 1579 in Arras ( Atrecht ), under which the southern states of the Netherlands, today in Wallonia and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( and Picardy ) régions in France and Belgium, expressed their loyalty to the Spanish king Philip II and recognized his Governor-General, Don Juan of Austria.

Ernest George Jansen ( 1881 – 1959 ) was the second-last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, holding office from 1950 to 1959.

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# REDIRECT Governor-General of the Union of South Africa

He served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1931 to 1937.

* See related article Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.

Premier of Madras ( 1937 – 1939 ), Governor of Bengal ( 1946 – 1948 ), Governor-General of India ( 1948 – 1950 ), Union Home Minister ( 1950 – 1952 ) and Chief Minister of Madras state ( 1952 – 1954 ).

Since the Union of South Africa was a British dominion the British monarch reigned as South Africa's monarch, and was represented by the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.

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The last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and the first State President of South Africa, Charles Robberts Swart was imprisoned here by the British in 1914 and released one day before his scheduled execution.