Table of Contents

Foreword - Rodney Cavalier Introduction David Clune and Ken Turner Arthur Phillip (26 January 1788 - 10 December 1792) Andrew Tink John Hunter (11 September 1795 - 27 September 1800) Andrew Tink Philip Gidley King (28 September 1800 - 12 August 1806) Andrew Tink William Bligh (13 August 1806 - 1 January 1810) Anne-Maree Whitaker Lachlan Macquarie (1 January 1810 - 1 December 1821) Brian Fletcher Sir Thomas Brisbane (1 December 1821-1 December 1825) Carol Liston Ralph Darling (19 December 1825 - 22 October 1831) Brian Fletcher Sir Richard Bourke (3 December 1831 - 5 December 1837) Frank Bongiorno Sir George Gipps (24 February 1838 - 11 July 1846) Alan Ventress Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy (1846 - 1855) John Kennedy McLauglin Sir William Thomas Denison (20 January 1855 - 22 January 1861) J M Bennett Sir John Young (16 May 1861 - 24 December 1867) Gareth Griffith Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore (8 January 1868 - 21 February 1872) Neil Graham Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson (3 June 1872 - 19 March 1879) Neil Graham Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus (1879 - 1885) Geoffrey Bolton Baron Carrington (Charles Robert Carrington) (1885 - 1890) Geoffrey Bolton Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, Earl of Jersey (15 January 1891 - 2 March 1893) Geoffrey Bolton Sir Robert William Duff (29 May 1893 - 15 March 1895) Martha Rutledge Henry Robert Brand Hampden, Viscount Hampden (21 November 1895 - 5 March 1899) Gordon Lang William Lygon Beauchamp, Earl Beauchamp (18 May 1899 - 30 April 1901) Graham Freudenberg Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (27 May 1902-27 May 1909) Martha Rutledge Frederic John Napier Thesiger Chelmsford, Baron Chelmsford (28 May 1909 - 11 Mar 1913) David Clune Sir Gerald Count della Catena Strickland (14 March 1913 - 27 October 1917) Michael Hogan Sir Walter Edward Davidson (18 February 1918 - 16 September 1923) David Clune Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (28 February 1924 - 8 April 1930) Anne Twomey Sir Philip Woolcott Game (29 May 1930-15 January 1935) Ann Twomey Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven (21 February 1935 - 22 January 1936) Chris Cunneen .Sir David Murray Anderson (6 August 1936 - 30 October 1936) David Clune John de Vere Loder, Baron Wakehurst (8 April 1937 - 8 January 1946) Chris Cunneen Sir John Northcott (1946 - 1957) Chris Cunneen Sir Eric Winslow Woodward (1 August 1957 - 31 July 1965) Ken Turner Sir Arthur Roden Cutler (1966 - 1981) Ian Hancock Sir James Anthony Rowland (20 January 1981 - 19 January 1989) Evan Williams Sir David Martin (20 January 1989 - 7 August 1990) Ian Hancock Peter Ross Sinclair (8 August 1990 - 1 March 1996) Rodney Smith Gordon Jacob Samuels (1 March 1996 - 28 February 2001) Rodney Cavalier Marie Bashir (2001 - ) Ken Turner and David Clune AppendicesTable One: The Governors of New South Wales Table Two: The Governors of NSW South Wales - Career Index

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The governor of a state is at the apex of its system of government, assenting laws, dissolving parliaments and commissioning ministers. Yet he or she is almost always required to act on the advice of the government of the day. This paradox is a product of the states' origins as colonies under the British Crown and their subsequent moves to responsible government. That progression is, in many ways, the theme of this book, which contains biographies of the 37 governors of NSW since 1788, with particular emphasis on their period as the vice-regal representative... like all books from Federation Press, this one is produced with superior paper and beautiful binding so that is a pleasure to hold while reading. - Michael Sexton, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, March 27-28, 2010