Francis Newdegate

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13th Governor of Tasmania
Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate

In office March 30, 1917 – February, 1920
Preceded by	William Ellison-Macartney
Succeeded by	William Lamond Allardyce
21st Governor of Western Australia
In office February, 1920 – June 16, 1924
Preceded by	William Campion
Succeeded by	William Lamond Allardyce

Born	December 31, 1862 Chelsea, London, England United Kingdom
Died	January 2, 1936 Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England United Kingdom
Spouse	Hon. Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot

Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate GCMG (13 December 1862–2 January 1936) was Governor of Tasmania from 1917 to 1920, and Governor of Western Australia from 1920 to 1924.

Born in 1862, he was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Francis William Newdigate and his first wife Charlotte Elizabeth Agnes Sophia Woodford, and grandson of Francis Parker Newdigate. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1883. He married Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot on 13 October 1888.

He inherited estates at Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton and at Harefield, near Uxbridge on the death of his father in 1893. He assumed the additional surname Newdegate under the terms of the will of his uncle in 1902. In 1911 he erected, at Arbury Hall, a monument to the memory of George Eliot whose father had been employed on the Arbury estate.

He was Member of Parliament for Nuneaton from 1892 to 1906, and for Tamworth from 1909 to 1917. He was on 14 February 1917 appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead (a mechanism for resigning from the House of Commons).

He was awarded the KCMG in 1917 upon his appointment as Governor of Tasmania (1917 to 1920). He was appointed Governor of Western Australia in 1920 where he served until 1924. On retirement he was promoted GCMG in 1925. The Western Australian town of Newdegate is named after him.

He was appointed High Steward of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield in 1925.

On his death in 1936 his estates passed to his daughter Lucia, who in 1919, had married John Maurice Fitzroy, father of the 3rd Viscount Daventry.

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'Australian Dictionary of Biography' Vol. 11. Melbourne University Press 1988.

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Newdigate family

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Dugdale	Member of Parliament for Nuneaton 1892 – 1906	Succeeded by William Johnson
Preceded by Sir Philip Muntz	Member of Parliament for Tamworth 1909 – 1917	Succeeded by Henry Wilson-Fox
Government offices
Preceded by Sir William Ellison-Macartney	Governor of Tasmania 1917 – 1920	Succeeded by Sir William Lamond Allardyce
Preceded by Sir William Ellison-Macartney	Governor of Western Australia 1920 – 1924	Succeeded by Sir William Campion