Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
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The Right Honourable The Lord Denman GCMG, KCVO, PC |
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| 5th Governor-General of Australia | |
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In office 31 July 1911 – 18 May 1914 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister |
Andrew Fisher Joseph Cook |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Dudley |
| Succeeded by | Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson |
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16 November 1874 London, England |
| Died | 24 June 1954 (aged 79) Hove, Sussex |
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman GCMG, KCVO, PC (16 November 1874 – 24 June 1954) was a British Liberal politician and the fifth Governor-General of Australia.
Born in London, Denman was the son of Richard Denman, a court clerk and Helen Mary McMicking.Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was his great-grandfather.
He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, intending a military career, but in 1894 unexpectedly inherited a peerage from his great-uncle and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st birthday the following year. He continued his military career in the Royal Scots, where he was promoted to lieutenant on 4 March 1896, but resigned in May 1899 and was placed in the Reserve. Returning to the army on the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Lord Denman was on 3 February 1900 commissioned as a lieutenant of the 11th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. He was promoted to captain in the battalion on 18 July 1900, and the following year was appointed a captain in the Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge´s Hussars) Imperial Yeomanry, followed by a promotion to major on 30 April 1902.
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