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Patrick Duncan (governor-general)

The Right Honourable
Sir Patrick Duncan
GCMG KC
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6th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
In office
5 April 1937 – 17 July 1943
Monarch George VI
Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Preceded by The Earl of Clarendon
Succeeded by Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet as Officer Administering the Government
Minister for the Interior, Educationand Public Health
In office
February 1921 – 30 June 1924
Prime Minister Jan Smuts
Preceded by Thomas Watt
F. S. Malan (Education)
Succeeded by Daniel François Malan
Personal details
Born 21 December 1870
Fortrie, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Died 17 July 1943 (1943-07-18) (aged 72)
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Nationality Anglo-South African (also British subject)
Spouse(s) Alice Dold
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
Balliol College, Oxford
Viceregal styles of
Sir Patrick Duncan
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Reference style His Excellency
Spoken style Your Excellency
Alternative style Sir

Sir Patrick Duncan GCMG KC (21 December 1870 – 17 July 1943) was the sixth Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, holding office from 1937 to 1943.

Born in Scotland in 1870, he took degrees in classics at the University of Edinburgh and at Balliol College, Oxford, and studied law in the Inner Temple, before joining the British civil service in 1894 as a Clerk of the Upper Division in the Secretaries' Office for Inland Revenue.

In 1901, during the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), he was recruited by Viscount Milner, to join a team of young administrators - known as "Milner's Kindergarten" - to govern and anglicise the British-occupied Transvaal. He was Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal from 1903 until the colony was granted self-government in 1907, playing an important part in the repatriation of ex-prisoners of war, and in the social and financial reconstruction of the former Boer state.

Duncan practised as an attorney from 1907 to 1910, and was a legal adviser to the Transvaal delegation to the 1908-1909 National Convention that drew up the constitution for the Union of South Africa.

He was a member of the Union Parliament from 1910 to 1936, first as a member of the Unionist Party, then of the South African Party and its successor the United Party. He was Minister of Education, the Interior, and Public Health in the SAP administration from 1921 to 1924, and Minister of Mines in the UP administration from 1933 to 1936.


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