William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield
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The Right Honourable The Lord Huntingfield KCMG |
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| 17th Governor of Victoria | |
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In office 14 May 1934 – 4 April 1939 |
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| Monarch |
King George V (1934-1936) King Edward VIII (1936) King George VI (1936-1939) |
| Preceded by | Lord Somers |
| Succeeded by | Sir Winston Dugan |
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| Born |
3 January 1883 Gatton, Queensland |
| Died | 20 November 1969 (aged 86) Hove, East Sussex, England |
| Alma mater | Wellington College |
William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield, KCMG (3 January 1883 – 20 November 1969) was a British Conservative Party politician, Governor of Victoria and Administrator of Australia. He was the first native-born governor of an Australian state.
Born in Gatton, Queensland, he was the son of Hon. William Arcedeckne Vanneck and Mary Armstrong. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, whereafter he joined the 13th/18th Hussars reaching the rank of captain. He succeeded his uncle in 1915 as 5th Baron Huntingfield of Heveningham Hall and 7th Baronet Vanneck of Putney.
He married American born Margaret Eleanor Crosby (d. 1 March 1943), the daughter of Ernest Howard Crosby and Fanny Kendall Schieffelin. From her paternal grandmother Margaret Evertson Givan, Crosby was descendant from Dutch, French Canadian and Scandinavian ancestors who settled in North America.
They had four children:
Between 1923 and 1929 he was member for Eye, Suffolk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was successively Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Home Office 1926–7, and then to the President of the Board of Trade between 1927–8.
In 1934 Lord Huntingfield became the Governor of Victoria, Australia, being the first Australian-born governor of an Australian state (although he was always considered British). (Despite this, Victoria was the last of the states to appoint an Australian as governor, Sir Henry Winneke in 1974.) His term expired in 1939. He served as Administrator of Australia between March 1938 and September 1938.
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