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Vice-Regal

Vice-Regal

A History of the Governors of South Australia

by Philip Payton
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2021

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In this highly readable and revelatory account of the Governors of South Australia, leading historian Philip Payton charts the evolution of the vice-regal role from foundation in 1836 to the present day, setting the development of this distinguished office against the backdrop of the State's often dramatic history. He tells the story of Government House and other vice-regal residences, notably Marble Hill which was all but destroyed on 'Black Sunday' in January 1955, and provides biographical sketches of each of the State's thirty-five Governors to date (of whom only two were women). Rich in anecdote and detail, Professor Payton's lively history illuminates the careers of each of these Governors, probing their personalities, revealing their foibles, passions and achievements, just occasionally with a whiff of scandal. Governors' wives, and sometimes other family members too, are no less interesting, and several have made lasting contributions to their adopted State, as Philip Payton demonstrates in this comprehensive and absorbing book.
ISBN:
9781743058534
9781743058534
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wakefield Press Pty, Limited
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
234x156mm
Weight:
0.59kg
Philip Payton

Philip Payton is Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, and Emeritus Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he was Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies from 1991 to 2013. He is the author/editor of more than fifty books, including Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' (2007), and Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio' (2012), both of which are about the history of northern Yorke Peninsula.

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