The peerage Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor was created in the United Kingdom in 1949 for Sir Gordon Macdonald, the last British governor of Newfoundland. It became extinct on the death of the second baron in 2002. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1885–1966) was a British politician and Newfoundlands final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada. ... Map of Newfoundland Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the northeast coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Barons Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1949)

• Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1888–1966)
• Gordon Ramsay Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1915–2002)