1. Sir William Lamond Allardyce, was a career British civil servant in the Colonial Office who served as governor of Fiji, the Falkland Islands, Bahamas, Tasmania, and Newfoundland.
13 Facts About William Allardyce
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William Allardyce's brother Kenneth was a colonial administrator, serving as Secretary for Native Affairs in Fiji.
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William Allardyce first posting was Fiji, where, just two years after his arrival, he was named acting Resident Commissioner for the island of Rotuma.
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William Allardyce subsequently became Colonial Secretary and a member of the Executive Council in 1898.
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In 1904, William Allardyce was appointed as Governor of the Falkland Islands.
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William Allardyce was ordered to Newfoundland where he was to succeed Sir Charles Alexander Harris as Governor of Newfoundland, where he was invited to become patron of the Great War Veterans Association.
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William Allardyce was the official Crown representative of the unveiling of the National War Memorial by Field Marshal the Earl Haig on 1 July 1924.
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William Allardyce officiated at the opening of the other national war memorial, Memorial University College, on 15 September 1925.
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William Allardyce as governor was a key promoter in the decision awarding jurisdiction over most of the Labrador Peninsula to Newfoundland by the Privy Council.
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In 1916, Allardyce was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by King George V He was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1927.
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William Allardyce was noted as one of the most competent administrators ever appointed by the Colonial Office to serve as the official representative of the British Crown in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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William Allardyce died of cancer on 9 June 1930 at Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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In 1923, Lady William Allardyce helped start the Girl Guide movement in Newfoundland, and then in 1924, she established the Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association.