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' 4 ' _ VILLAGE NOTES
‘ IX Sir Gedrge_Gipps
Much of England's history can be learnt from ~
tombstdnes: in Bridge there is a plaque to’a _
‘Lieutenant David Pratt' who died on the way home
from India in 1897, in Patrixbourne one to a Captain
of her Majesty's packet boats in the*English Channel
and in Bekesbourne another to a member of thee
Gipps family who died in enemy action in 1916 on
H.M.S. Grafton in the Eastern Mediterranean, but the
most famous is the association of Sir George Gipps
with New South Wales. Gipps was born at Bingwold
Kn? D@&l, th@ SOD Ofa Parson and was educated at
the King's dchoolg he served*under"fiellington in
Spain and after the Napoleonic Wars was stationed. .
at Chatham , then was sent to the West Indies where
"he showed much administrativerskill in governing‘
Jamaica"; ‘
He returned to England and married the I
daughter of Major-General Ramsay of_Howletts near »
Bekesbourne and then in 1837 at the beginning df“i
’ictoria's reign went as governor-general to I
Australia and was responsible for the tough sheep-
farmers, the Aborigines and keeping the colony out»
of debt. "My whole official experience teaches me
that in Downing Street at least the governor who ‘
keeps his government out of debt is the best.".
As communications were so bad he had sometimes to
act independently of instructions from Whitehall;
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