11 Facts About Francis Newdegate

Francis Newdegate was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1883.

Francis Newdegate married Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot on 13 October 1888.

Francis Newdegate inherited estates at Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton and at Harefield, near Uxbridge, on the death of his father in 1893, and uncle Sir Edward Francis Newdegate in 1902.

Francis Newdegate assumed the additional surname "Newdegate", differently spelt, under the terms of the will of a kinsman Charles Newdigate Newdegate, in September 1902.

Francis Newdegate was Member of Parliament for Nuneaton from 1892 to 1906, and for Tamworth from 1909 to 1917.

Francis Newdegate was on 14 February 1917 appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a mechanism for resigning from the House of Commons, on his appointment as Governor of Tasmania.

Francis Newdegate was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1917 upon his appointment as Governor of Tasmania.

Francis Newdegate was appointed Governor of Western Australia in 1920 where he served until 1924.

The Western Australian town of Francis Newdegate is named after him.

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

Francis Newdegate was a friend of Sir Alexander Russell Downer, who built a large home and gardens in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and named it Arbury Park after the Newdigate family home.