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Norrie, Sir Charles Willoughby Moke [Baron Norrie] (1893 - 1977) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of ... (860 words) |
 | NORRIE, Sir CHARLES WILLOUGHBY MOKE, Baron Norrie of Wellington and of Upton (1893-1977), army officer and governor, was born on 26 September 1893 at Brompton, London, son of George Edward Moke-Norrie, barrister, and his wife Beatrice, née Stephen. |
| Norrie retired from the army in September 1944 on accepting the governorship of South Australia; he was appointed K.C.M.G. Accompanied by his wife, children, an orphaned niece and twelve staff, he sailed to Sydney, travelled by train to Adelaide and assumed office on 19 December 1944. |
| During leave in Britain in 1947, Norrie persuaded the Ministry of Food to ease its restrictions on the volume of Australian wine which could be imported; he also induced the Peninsular & Oriental and Orient steamship companies to resume their pre-war practice of allowing some passenger ships to call at Port Adelaide. |
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Baron Norrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (76 words) |
| Baron Norrie is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. |
| It was created in 1957 for Charles Norrie upon his retirement as Governor-General of New Zealand. |
| George Willoughby Moke Norrie, 2nd Baron Norrie (b. |
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