"Governor of New South Wales" Dudley de Chair Signed 7X10 Card For Sale

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"Governor of New South Wales" Dudley de Chair Signed 7X10 Card:
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Up for sale the "Governor of New South Wales" Dudley de Chair Hand Signed 7X10 Dudley

Rawson Stratford de Chair KCB KCMG MVO (30

August 1864 – 17 August 1958) was a senior Royal Navy officer and later Governor of New South Wales. De Chair was born on 30 August

1864 in Lennoxville, Province of Canada, the

son of Dudley Raikes de Chair and Frances Emily, daughter of Christopher Rawson

(of the landed gentry family of Rawson of The Haugh End and Mill House)[1] and the sister of Harry Rawson (whom he later succeeded as Governor of New

South Wales). The De Chair family, settled in England since the end of the

seventeenth century, was of Huguenot descent and could trace their ancestry to Rene

de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean de la Chaire, was ennobled as a marquis in

1600 by Henry IV of France. They

rose to gentry status through generations of clergymen. In 1870, De Chair

moved with his family to England and joined the Royal Navy in 1878 aged 14, being first stationed as a

cadet aboard HMS Britannia.

After becoming a midshipman in 1880, de Chair was

posted aboard HMS Alexandra,

the flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet and

took part in the bombardment of War in

1882. De Chair had volunteered to carry despatches to

a desert fort during the bombardment but was taken prisoner and presented

before the revolutionary leader Ahmed 'Urabi and gained significant publicity back home

in England. He was promoted to commander on 22 July

1897, and to captain on 26 June

1902. On 21 April 1903, at Torwood, Devon,

de Chair married Enid, daughter of Henry William Struben, of Transvaal, South Africa. They had three children, Henry, Elaine and Somerset. Following the King Edward VII's visit to the Russian Empire, de Chair was

appointed Member of

the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) on 10 June 1908 for his role in

the visit as captain of HMS Cochrane.

De Chair was promoted to Assistant Controller of the Navy in 1910 and

served as Secretary to First Lord

of the Admiralty in 1912. On 6 March 1911, de Chair was

appointed a Naval aide-de-camp (ADC)

to King George V. He

relinquished the appointment on 31 July 1912, having been promoted to flag rank on

that day. He served in the First World War as commander of the 10th Cruiser Squadron from

1914 and, having been promoted to rear admiral on 31

July 1912, became Naval Adviser to the Foreign Office on Blockade Affairs in

1916. In the 1914 King's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of

the Bath (CB). In April–May 1917 De Chair was a member of

the Balfour Mission, intended

to promote cooperation between the United States and United Kingdom during the

First World War, and went on to be commander of the 3rd Battle

Squadron later in 1917. A good friend of the First Sea Lord, Sir John Jellicoe,

de Chair was personally affronted by the act and manner of Jellicoe's dismissal

from that office in December 1917. De Chair later recalled in his memoirs

that he unloaded his frustrations and offence at the matter onto Jellicoe's

successor, Sir Rosslyn

Wemyss and found himself outside of preferment for advancement

as a result. Moved sideways to the much less prestigious position of Admiral

Commanding, Coastguard and Reserves in July 1918, de Chair

became President of the Inter-allied

Commission on Enemy Warships in 1921 before retiring in 1923. De

Chair had been interested in serving in a viceregal role as early as 1922, when

he put his name forward to the Colonial Office for the position of Governor of South

Australia. This position however, went to Sir Tom Bridges instead and the First Lord of the

Admiralty, Leo Amery, put de Chair's name forward for

the Governor of New South Wales. This position, which had been

vacant since the death of Sir Walter Davidson in

September 1923, was the same one his uncle, Sir Harry Rawson, had held twenty years earlier, and to which

he was appointed on 8 November 1923. Arriving in Sydney on 28

February 1924, de Chair became governor in relatively calm political times and

was warmly received in the city with great fanfare. On de Chair's appointment,

the President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Aubrey Halloran, compared

Admiral de Chair to the first Governor, Captain Arthur Phillip: "Our new Governor's reputation as an

intrepid sailor and ruler of men evokes from us a hearty welcome and inspires

us to place in him the same confidence that [Arthur] Phillip received from his

gallant band of fellow-sailors and the English statesmen who sent him."

The political makeup of the state changed not long after his arrival

however, when the of Sir George

Fuller, whom de Chair had got on well with, was defeated at

the May 1925

state election by the Labor

Party under Jack Lang. De

Chair noted to himself that Lang and his party's position comprised

"radical and far-reaching legislation, which had not been foreshadowed in

their election speeches". He also later wrote that Lang's "lack of

scruple gave me a great and unpleasant surprise". With the

Labor Government only holding a single seat majority in the Legislative

Assembly and only a handful of members in the upper Legislative

Council, one of Lang's main targets was electoral reform. The

Legislative Council, comprising members appointed by the Governor for life terms, had long been seen by Lang and the Labor Party as

an outdated bastion of conservative privilege holding back their reform agenda.

Although previous Labor premiers had managed to work with the status quo, such

as requesting appointments from the Governor sufficient to pass certain bills,

Lang's more radical political agenda required more drastic action to ensure its

passage. Consequently, Lang and his government sought to abolish the council,

along the same lines that their Queensland Labor colleagues had done in 1922 to

their Legislative Council,

by requesting from de Chair enough appointments to establish a Labor majority

in the council that would then vote for abolition. While Lang's attempts

ultimately failed, de Chair failed to gain the support of an indifferent Dominions Office. With Lang's departure in 1927, the

Nationalist Government of Thomas Bavin invited him in 1929 to stay on as Governor

for a further term. De Chair agreed only to a year's extension and retired on 8

April 1930.

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