biography
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| lived:
| (1791–1847)
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| biography:
| Colonial administrator, born in Ringwould, Kent, SE England, UK. He served in the Royal Engineers before becoming Governor of New South Wales (1838–46). His policy of selling land by auction instead of the colonial office policy of a fixed price showed him to be an unpopular but farsighted opponent of land monopoly. Gippsland in Victoria is named after him. |
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