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Kerr was familiar with this book, and re-read it before accepting Whitlam's offer of the Governor-Generalship.
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Kerr was familiar with this book, and re-read it before accepting Whitlam's offer of the Governor-Generalship.
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Governor-Generalship he wrote to Burton, offering him the post of
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Having met him during his Governor-Generalship, I know what a loss the nation suffered by the death of General Vanier - that fine, honest, upright and dignified soldier, a great and patriotic Canadian.
Ulster's Place In Britain Today/The Economic Future of Great Britain 1967
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Scotia, to the Governor-Generalship of British North America, and leaving Major-General Wilson in temporary charge of the government, he sailed for England on the 1st of May.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Lieut.Gov. of Bombay, and thrice refused the Governor-Generalship.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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But their hostility had no time to mature; for Gordon, baffled on all sides, and deserted even by the Khedive, precipitately returned to his Governor-Generalship.
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Thus the mission to report had already swollen into a Governor-Generalship, with the object, not merely of effecting the evacuation of the Sudan, but also of setting up various Sultans to take the place of the Egyptian Government.
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But again Providence intervened: the Khedive offered him, as an inducement to remain in the Egyptian service, a position of still higher consequencethe Governor-Generalship of the whole Sudan; and Gordon once more took up his task.
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Governor-Generalship of British India, and whose rule there both from a military and from a political-economical point of view must be regarded as pre-eminently successful.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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