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Major Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams (27 June 1858 – 12 April 1920) was an Irish soldier and colonial administrator who was Governor of Queensland in Australia from 1915 to 1920. ==Biography== Born in the town of Jamesbrook in County Cork, Ireland, Goold-Adams was a cadet in the training ship HMS ''Conway'' until he decided to join the British Army and was commissioned in the Royal Scots Regiment, serving principally in southern Africa, where he achieved the rank of captain in 1885 and major in 1895. During the Second Boer War he served first as Resident Commissioner in Bechuanaland and afterwards as commander of the Town Guard during the latter half of the Siege of Mafeking where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. He was made Deputy Commissioner and later Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony under Governor Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner from 1901 to 1907. He was made CMG in 1902 and GCMG in 1907. He returned to England in 1911 where he married a Canadian named Elsie Riordon on 4 July. Later that year he was appointed British High Commissioner to Cyprus. In 1914 he was made Governor of Queensland, and arrived in Brisbane just before the election of Queensland's first majority Labor government, under Premier T. J. Ryan. He occasionally disapproved of Labor's policies and majority appointments to the Legislative Council of Queensland. Returning to England after his retirement, Goold-Adams contracted pleurisy on board ship, and died in Cape Town, South Africa in 1920. File:StateLibQld 1 299795 Lady Morgan, accompanied by Governor Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, presenting a bouquet on the Bombala, Brisbane, 1915.jpg|Lady Morgan, accompanied by Governor Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, presenting a bouquet on the Bombala, Brisbane, 1915 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「Hamilton Goold-Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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