RARE “South Australia Govenor\" Henry Galway Hand Signed Letterhead COA For Sale

Up for sale the "South Australia Govenor" Henry Galway Hand Signed Letterhead. This item is authenticated By Todd

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Australia from 18 April 1914 until 30 April 1920. His name

was Henry Lionel Gallwey until 1911. Henry Lionel Gallwey was

born on 25 September 1859 at Alverstoke, Hampshire, England, to Lieutenant General Sir

Thomas Lionel Gallwey and his second wife, Alicia Dorinda Lefanu, née

MacDougall. He was educated at Cheltenham College. After

attending the Royal Military College,

Sandhurst, Gallwey was commissioned in 1878. He served as an aide-de-camp

to the governors of Bermuda, being promoted to captain in

1887. Gallwey was appointed deputy commissioner and vice-consul in the newly

established Oil Rivers Protectorate (later the Niger Coast Protectorate)

in 1891. In March 1892, he failed to convince the Oba of Benin, Ovonramwen, into signing a 'treaty of friendship' that would

make the Kingdom of Benin a

British colony.[ Instead, the oba issued an edict barring all

British officials and traders from entering Benin territories. The 'Gallwey

Treaty', although it was never signed, became the legal basis for the Benin Expedition of 1897,

which overthrew the Kingdom of Benin. Captain Gallwey commanded one of the

three columns of the expedition. Gallwey was often mentioned in despatches during

this time, and was rewarded with the Distinguished Service

Order (DSO; 1896), appointment as Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG;

1899) and promotion to major (1897). Gallwey

was attached as a political officer to the staff of the British Field Force

during the Aro-Anglo war from

November 1901 until March 1902 and was mentioned in despatches by the High

Commissioner to Southern Nigeria. Given

the rank of lieutenant

colonel when he was placed on half-pay in 1901, Gallwey retired from the army in 1902. Gallwey

was in November 1902 appointed as governor of the island of Saint Helena,[2] where he revived capital punishment.

Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

in 1910, he was transferred to be governor of the Gambia in

1911. Galway was appointed Governor of South

Australia in 1914. He resented the limitations placed upon a

constitutional governor, and his governorship was defined by controversy. He

managed to anger a wide spectrum of the population. The general public disliked

his support of compulsory military training; puritans were angered by his

support for gambling and his opposition to prohibition; progressives were infuriated by his opposition to

women's enfranchisement; and the political establishment were aghast at his

opposition to the White Australia Policy (on

the grounds that the Northern Territory needed

Asian workers). For this last opinion, he was forced to issue a full retraction

and apology. A speech in 1915 in which Galway suggested that trade unionists

should be conscripted and sent to the front was widely criticised and gave

local cartoonists a field day. It was eventually Galway's support for conscription that saved his governorship; the legislature

decided that his efforts to increase voluntary recruitment for the First World War, as well as his support for conscription

referendums, warranted keeping him in the role. A motion in the legislature by

the Labor opposition in 1917 calling for the abolition of his

office failed. After

the war, Premier Archibald Peake was

considering a proposal to build a national war

memorial on the site of Government House, Adelaide,

with a new vice-regal residence to be purchased in the suburbs. Galway managed

to dissuade Peake from this scheme, and the war memorial was built in a corner

of the grounds of Government House. Galway's

appointment was not renewed when it expired in 1920; although he was liked by

the Adelaide establishment, he had been a spectacularly controversial governor,

and the Colonial Office did not give him another post. He returned to England

later in 1920.