|
Sir Edward Denis Blundell (29 May 1907 – 24 September 1984) was the 12th Governor-General of New Zealand from 1972 to 1977. ==Early life and family== Denis Blundell was born in Wellington to Henry Percy Fabian Blundell, grandson of Henry Blundell, founder of The Evening Post〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BLUNDELL, Henry Percy Fabian )〕 and scion of the ancient Lancashire family. Blundell attended Waitaki Boys' High School and Trinity College, Cambridge. There he read Law and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1929. He never practised in the UK however, and returned to New Zealand in 1930, practising as barrister and solicitor in Wellington. He was a partner in the Wellington law firm of Bell Gully from 1936 to 1968. During World War II he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2 NZEF, from 1939 to 1944. Blundell was President of the Wellington District Law Society in 1951, President of the New Zealand Law Society for six years (1962–1968) and Vice-President of the Law Society of Asia and the Pacific 1966. Blundell was a talented cricketer, and opened the bowling in first class cricket for Cambridge University as well as for MCC and Wellington.〔(CricInfo profile )〕 He captained Wellington in the 1934-35 Plunket Shield season, taking 6 for 82 and 5 for 48 in the match against Otago.〔(Wellington v Otago, 1935-35 )〕 He was later President of the New Zealand Cricket Board 1959–1962. He married June Halligan in 1945, with whom he had a son and a daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denis Blundell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|