* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1939 – Lise Thibault, Canadian civil servant, 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

* Mayann Francis, First Black Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

Dalhousie was founded as a result of the desires of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to establish a non-denominational college in Halifax.

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

Mountbatten was Governor of the Isle of Wight from 20 July 1965 and then the first Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1 April 1974.

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.

In 1754, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie had promised land bounties to the soldiers and officers who volunteered to serve during the French and Indian War.

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In such a circumstance, or if the governor leaves the country for longer than one month, the Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales, concurrently held by the Chief Justice of New South Wales since 1872, serves as Administrator of the Government and exercises all powers of the governor.

Furthermore, if the Lieutenant Governor becomes incapacitated while serving in the office of Governor, the next most senior judge of the Supreme Court is sworn in as the Administrator.

* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan

For example, in each Canadian province the role is fulfilled by the Lieutenant Governor, whereas in most British Overseas Territories the powers and duties are performed by the Governor.

Her representative on the isle is the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, but his role is mostly ceremonial, though he does have the power to grant Royal Assent ( the withholding of which is the same as a veto ).

Executive power is vested in the Lieutenant Governor ( as Governor-in-Council ), the Chief Minister, and the Isle of Man's Council of Ministers.

The Lieutenant Governor is appointed by the Queen, on the advice of the UK's Secretary of State for Justice, for a five-year term and nominally exercises executive power on behalf of the Queen.

The other High and Appeal Court Judges are the Second Deemster, Deputy Deemster and Judge of Appeal, all of whom are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

A watercolor from the mid-1830s portrays New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor Sir Archibald Campbell and his family in the company of British soldiers on skates engaged in stick-on-ice sport.

The Lieutenant Governor of Jersey | Lieutenant Governor is the representative of head of state and the Bailiff ( Channel Islands ) | Bailiff is the civic head.

When, therefore, the violent agitation in Ireland against Wood's halfpence made it necessary to replace the Duke of Grafton as Lord Lieutenant, Carteret was sent to Dublin.

Lieutenant William Hobson, following instructions of the British government, in 1840 pronounced the southern island of New Zealand to be uninhabited by civilised peoples, which qualified the land to be " terra nullius ", and therefore fit for the Crown's political occupation.

The implementation of the agreements reached at Aburi fell apart upon the leaderships return to Nigeria and on 30 May 1967, as a result of this, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria a sovereign state to be known as BIAFRA :" Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic, now, therefore I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall, henceforth, be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra.

When he arrived to the harbor he found the Santa Rosa almost dismantled, therefore he decided to meet king Kamehameha I wearing his uniform of Lieutenant Colonel of the United Provinces of River Plate.

Eisenhower therefore took Lieutenant General Alfred Gruenther with him as his chief of staff.

The Lieutenant Governor is elected separately from the Governor, rather than on the same ticket ; it is therefore possible for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to be from different political parties ( which was the case during Governor George W. Bush's first term and also during Bill Clements's two nonconsecutive terms ).

The Maryland Lieutenant Governor, currently Anthony G. Brown, is therefore weaker than the office in most other states which have one ( several states do not have one ).

They were appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ( in reality, therefore, by the Dublin Castle administration in Ireland ).

After the court of inquiry exonerated him of these charges for the second time, Gale, with 21 years of service and therefore senior, became Lieutenant Colonel Commandant on March 3, 1819, ending a six month period during which the Corps had been leaderless.

A Liberal, George Bulyea, was therefore appointed Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, and it was understood that he would appoint a Liberal as the province's first premier.

Yet, the creation of the office of Lieutenant Governor was deemed unsuitable by the Colonial Office and therefore Gimson was soon replaced by a Chief Civil Affairs Officer and his team sent from London on 7 September.

He therefore formed a Town Committee headed by Lieutenant Philip Jackson to draw up a formal plan for the colony, which came to be known as the Jackson Plan.

Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss was put in charge of " obtaining the instruments needed and books.

In 1981, Colonel Wass De Czege convinced Fort Leavenworth's Lieutenant General Richardson that a second year of military education was needed for select officers.

Grant Road is probably named after General Sir James Hope Grant who commanded a cavalry division at the relief of Lucknow, but a Private P Grant and a Sergeant R Grant both won VCs in the mutiny, as did a Lieutenant C Grant, so further research is needed.

In spite of pilot shortages, Lieutenant General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold was the person who needed to be convinced that women pilots were the solution to his staffing problems.

It was initially founded by Lieutenant Colonel Miller, who needed an airfield to operate his postal service between the city and Cape Town.

Lieutenant General Sir William Fenwick Williams, Commander in Chief, North America, did what he could with his small forces, but he wrote repeatedly to the authorities back in Britain that he needed considerable reinforcements to prepare his defenses adequately.

At the outset of the First World War, he joined the Semyenovsky Guards Regimentas a Second Lieutenant declaring, " I am convinced that all that is needed in order to achieve what I want is bravery and self-confidence.

He wanted to protect Philadelphia from British forces under the command of Lieutenant General William Howe, and he needed to replenish the rapidly dwindling supplies and munitions which were stored in Reading, Pennsylvania.

It was in fact thought that legislation might not be needed at all, as the Lord Lieutenant possessed the power to extend any provisions already in force in England to Ireland by Order in Council.

The commander of the Communication Zone, Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee, persuaded Eisenhower to allow soldiers to volunteer for service " without regard to color or race to the units where assistance is most needed, and give you the opportunity of fighting shoulder to shoulder to bring about victory ".

However, as the war against Bolivia seemed inevitable, the government decided that Lieutenant Colonel Estigarribia was the man who was needed in the Chaco.

But Vietnam was over when he graduated and his, as well as many other's, services were not needed as a Second Lieutenant.

" Lieutenant governor decides it ’ s time to go: Johnson discloses no particular plans, Taft says interim isn ’ t needed.