| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Thomas Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly
Thomas Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly KCMG (29 May 1914 – 6 November 1988), known as Dan Ranfurly, was a British Army officer and farmer, who served as Governor of the Bahamas. His exploits in the Second World War, along with those of his wife, Hermione and his valet, Whitaker, were chronicled in his wife's memoirs from the time, ''To War With Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939–1945''.
==Background==
Ranfurly was the son of Captain Thomas Uchter Caulfeild Knox, Viscount Northland, and succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1933. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in 1936. He and his wife met in 1937 when he was an aide-de-camp to Lord Gowrie, the Governor-General of Australia, an appointment Ranfurly held from 1936 to 1938. Two years later, both aged 25, they returned to Britain and were married. They later had a daughter, Caroline.
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「Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|