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Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (6 March 186030 March 1934), was a Scottish politician and colonial governor. He served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia (1914–1920), and is considered probably the most politically influential holder of this post. After his return to Britain he was Secretary for Scotland (1922–24). ==Background and education== Munro Ferguson was born Ronald Craufurd Ferguson at his family home in the Raith area near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son and eldest child of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Ferguson, a wealthy member of the British House of Commons of old Scottish descent. His mother was Emma Eliza, daughter of James Henry Mandeville of Merton, Surrey. He was a grandson of General Richard C Ferguson. In 1864 his father inherited the estates of Novar in Ross-shire and Muirton, Morayshire, and took the additional surname Munro. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and pursued a military career until 1884.〔 Ferguson joined the 1st Fife Light Horse in 1875; a militia regiment of gentlemen. Three years later he entered RMA Sandhurst. On the officer's course for a year, he was gazetted to the Grenadier Guards with a commission. He served in the army for a short service limited commission, leaving in 1884, on returning from India. Ferguson joined the Oswald of Dunnikier Lodge 468 on the 24th December 1888 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「Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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