Record ID:
36083556 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 86029292
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Governor-General
Birth:
  • 18900829
  • Brisbane (Qld.)
Death:
  • 19760617
  • Fitzroy (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • Politicians Diplomats Governors Governors general
Used for:
  • Berwick and the City of Westminster, Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron, 1890-1976
  • Casey of Berwick and the City of Westminster, Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron, 1890-1976
  • Casey, R. G. (Richard Gardiner), 1890-1976
  • Casey, Richard (Lord : 1890-1976)
See also:
Notes:
  • Hudson, W. J. Casey, 1986: p. xiii (throughout life known as R.G. Casey or Richard Gardiner Casey) Aus CIP (Casey, Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron, 1890-1976)
  • LC data base, 2-26-87 (hdg.: Casey, Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron, 1890- )
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 7 December 2021: (Casey, Richard Gavin Gardiner, Baron Casey of Berwick, Victoria, and the City of Westminster (1890-1976), engineer, diplomat, politician, governor and governor-general, was born on 29 August 1890 in Brisbane, eldest child of Richard Gardiner Casey. In 1893 the family moved to Melbourne, and prospered. Richard served in the A.I.F. in administration and intelligence. He returned to Melbourne and engaged in business and representing Australian interests in London, and entered parliament in 1931. In 1940 he became the first Australian ambassador in Washington, then joined the British as minister of state in the Middle East. In 1944 he became Governor of Bengal; he returned to Australia in 1946; in 1949 he was reelected to parlimant. He developed a strong interest in Asian relations. In 1960 he was made a British life peer, and resigned from the Australian parliament; in 1965 he was appointed Governor-General, retiring in 1969. He died in St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy (Melbourne), on 17 June 1976. Overall he was regarded as pracical and successful, though somewhat nervous and shy.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/casey-richard-gavin-gardiner-9706
Local system number:
  • 000001089785
  • abv02511028
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX23397
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda DLC VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc