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.

The last Governor, Sir John Shaw Rennie served as the first Governor-General until 27 August 1968.

The last Governor-General, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, became President under a transitional arrangement, before stepping down three months later in favour of Cassam Uteem, a former government minister.

On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, became the first President.

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.

Through a package of constitutional reforms agreed to with the Nationalist opposition, Malta became a republic on 13 December 1974, with the last Governor-General, Sir Anthony Mamo, as its first President.

When Kerr announced his resignation as Governor-General on 14 July 1977, Whitlam commented, " How fitting that the last of the Bourbons should bow out on Bastille Day.

The last Governor-General resided in a specially hired private residence in Booterstown, County Dublin.

However O ' Kelly was not made Governor-General, the post instead going to the former Fianna Fáil TD, Domhnall Ua Buachalla from County Kildare, who would be the last Governor-General.

He was appointed the 10th ( and last ) Governor-General of Korea in 1944 and 1945.

Lord Mountbatten served as the last Viceroy of British India, but continued on as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India.

* Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, the last British-born Governor-General of New Zealand

Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India.

" Rajaji then served as Governor-General of India from June 1948 until 26 January 1950, and was not only the last Governor-General of India, but the only Indian national ever to hold the office.

This last flag was the personal flag of the Governor-General only.

Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck ( Templemore 10 October 1819 – 29 November 1894 at Enniskerry ), was the last Governor-General of the Province of Canada and the first Governor General of Canada after Canadian Confederation.

His brother James was the second last Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov () ( February 1, 1879 ( Old Style ), Saint Petersburg – May 7, 1940, Moscow ) was a Russian liberal politician and the last Governor-General of Finland.

The last Governor-General, Charles Robberts Swart, took office as the first State President.

Queen Elizabeth II ceased to be head of state ( Queen of Malta ) (), and the last Governor-General, Sir Anthony Mamo, became the first President of Malta.

In May 1927 he formally opened the first meeting of the Australian Parliament in the newly built Parliament House in Canberra, and the Governor-General was at last given a permanent residence, Government House, Canberra, commonly known by the previous name of the house, Yarralumla.

Charles Robberts Swart, the last Governor-General, was sworn in as the first State President.

Charles Robberts Swart, the last Governor-General, left office on 30 April 1961 and Lucas Cornelius Steyn become Officer Administering the Government under a transitional arrangement, until 31 May 1961, when Republic of South Africa was declared and Swart become the first State President of South Africa.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.