Freeman Freeman Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon

Major Freeman FreemanThomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon GCSI GCMG GCIE GBE PC was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada, the 13th since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India, the countrys 22nd.

FreemanThomas was born in England and educated at Eton College and then the University of Cambridge before serving foryears in the Sussex Artillery. He then entered the diplomatic and political fields, acting as aidedecamp to his fatherinlaw when the latter was Governor of Victoria, and in 1900 was elected to the British House of Commons. He thereafter occupied a variety of government posts, including secretary to the British prime minister and, after being raised to the peerage as Lord Willingdon, as LordinWaiting to King George V. From 1913 on, Willingdon held gubernatorial and viceregal offices throughout the British Empire, starting with the governorship of Bombay and then the governorship of Madras, before he was in 1926 appointed as Canadian governor general by the King, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Stanley Baldwin, to replace The Viscount Byng of Vimy as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by The Earl of Bessborough in 1931. Wil

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