Dominick Daly

Sir Dominick Daly ( born August 11, 1798 in Ardfry, County Galway, Ireland, † February 19, 1868 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) was a British politician and colonial governor.

Biography

After schooling, he entered the service of the British colonial administration in 1823 and private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada, Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton. 1827 he was appointed Provincial Secretary of Lower Canada. After the Union Act ( Act of Union ) from 1840, by which the former provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were in 1841 united with the province of Canada, he was a candidate for the Provincial Parliament in the constituency of Mégantic and was then 1841-1848 Secretary of the Province of Canada and Member of the Executive Council.

Daly was in this capacity 1842-1843, however, also member of the government, the Prime Minister of the province of Canada William Henry Draper and Louis -Hippolyte La Fontaine, stepped in contrast to the rest of the cabinet members not on November 27, 1843 back, so that he was the only minister and remained in office as Acting Prime Minister worked up to form a new Cabinet on November 12, 1843 by Draper.

In 1852 he was first governor of Tobago. On July 11, 1854 his appeal was made to the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Iceland. This office he held until May 25, 1859. During this time, he was raised in 1856 as a Knight in the nobility and led henceforth the additional name sir.

Last place on March 4, 1862, he was appointed Governor of South Australia. This office he held until his death.

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