George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, GCMG, DSO, OBE, KStJ, PC (24 March 1882 – 27 March 1943) was a British politician. He served as the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1941.
Early life
Simon, the 8th Viscount Galway, Isabel, Lucia, Celia and Mary (from left).
George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell Galway was born on 24 March 1882.[1] His parents were George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway and Vere Gosling.[2] He had one sibling: Violet Frances Monckton-Arundell (wife of married Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Henry Julian FitzPatrick, son of Edward Skeffington-Smyth).[3]
He received his education at a preparatory school in Berkshire[4] before attending Eton College (1895–1900) and Christ Church College, University of Oxford (1900–1904). He read Modern History and graduated with Bachelor of Arts and took the Master of Arts subsequently (this degree at Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin is an elevation in rank and not a postgraduate qualification).[2][5]
Lord Galway succeeded his father to the family's Irish peerage in 1931.[5]
Viscount Galway was Governor-General of New Zealand from 12 April 1935 to 3 February 1941. His military background made an impression with cabinet ministers of the time. His term was twice extended because of the Second World War.[9] Viscount Galway and his wife received numerous gifts during his time as governor-general. Some were returned to New Zealand around the time of the sale of the family house Serlby Hall,[13] and were donated to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in 1980.[14]
George Monckton-Arundell, photographed by Herman Schmidt, circa 1935
Galway was a freemason. During his term as governor-general, he was also Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand.[15] In the 1937 Coronation Honours, he was appointed a member of the Privy Council.[16]
Viscount Galway married Lucia Margaret White, daughter of the 3rd Baron Annaly, in 1922. They had four children:[5]
Mary Victoria Monckton (1924–2010), who married David Henry Fetherstonhaugh, son of Lt.-Col. Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, in 1947. They divorced in 1972 and she married Maj. Robert Patricius Chaworth-Musters, son of Col. John Neville Chaworth-Musters, in 1974.[18]
^McLintock, Alexander Hare; Bernard John Foster, M. A.; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "GALWAY, Sir George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, Eighth Viscount". An encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, 1966. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ a bLundy, Darryl. "George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 13 November 2010.[unreliable source]
^Lundy, Darryl. "George Edward Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 13 November 2010.[unreliable source]
^"Lord Galway". Evening Post. Vol. CXVIII, no. 108. 3 November 1934. p. 11. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
^ a b c d"Biography of George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (1882–1943)". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
^Page 351-353, Regimental Fire, A History of the HAC in World war II, Author: Brigadier RF Johnson
^ a b cA. H. McLintock, ed. (22 April 2009) [originally published in 1966]. "Galway, Sir George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, Eighth Viscount". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatū Taonga. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
^Army List.
^Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage.
^ a b"Lord Galway". Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 87. 12 April 1935. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
^"Biography of George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (1882–1943)". Manuscripts and Special Collections. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
^"Collection items associated with Viscount Galway, GCMG, DSO, OBE, PC". Collections Online. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
^"KentHenderson". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
^"Honours list". Nelson Evening Mail. 11 May 1937. p. 5. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 197.
^Debrett's Peerage, and Titles of Courtesy. London, Dean. 1921. p. 393, GALWAY, VISCOUNT. (Monckton-Arundell.). Retrieved 20 May 2022.
External links
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Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Galway
Short biography by the office of the Governor-General