Lord Casey

Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG, GCMG, CH, DSO, MC, PC (29 August 1890 - 17 June 1976), Australian politician and diplomat and 16th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland. His father, also named Richard Gardiner Casey was a wealthy pastoralist and Queensland state politician of Irish descent. His mother, Evelyn, was the daughter of George Harris, another wealthy pastoralist and Queensland state politician. He was educated at an exclusive private school in Melbourne, at the University of Melbourne, where he gained an engineering degree, and at Cambridge, where he completed a Master of Arts. In 1914 he joined the Australian Army, and served at Gallipoli and in France, winning the Military Cross. Lord Casey File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... KG, Kg or kg may indicate: A Kampfgeschwader, a bomber squadron of the former German Luftwaffe Basketball Player Kevin Garnett An abbreviation for kilogram (always kg) Knight of the Garter, a British decoration Kommanditgesellschaft, German version of a limited partnership Kongo language (ISO 639 alpha-2) An abbreviation for konig... On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... The letter Ch is a letter in Chamorro, Czech, and Slovak alphabet. ... DSO may stand for: Distinguished Service Order Dallas Symphony Orchestra Darkstar Orchestra Deep sky object Defense Science Organization Defense Spectrum Office (US DoD) Detroit Symphony Orchestra Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (dso. ... MC can refer to any of the following: Compact audio cassette (from musicassettes), cassettes pre-recorded with music Congressperson (from Member of Congress) Gaelic patronymic word to mean son of, as in McCarthy (also Mac) Marginal cost Machine, (also m/c) Manchester, England (also m/c) Mariah Carey Marin Catholic... PC may stand for: Coastal Patrol, according to its US Navy hull classification symbol P Chidambaram, finance minister of India Parsec, written pc PC, a Mazda piston engine Penn Central - a railroad in the United States (AAR reporting mark PC) Percent or per cent, written Personal computer, IBM PC, or... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Governor-General of Australia is a position established by the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act to sign legislation into law, appoint judges and ministers and perform many other important duties. ... Brisbane by night Brisbane by day Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... The City of Melbournes coat of arms Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of... The University of Melbourne   The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, in Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia (the University of Sydney is the oldest). ... REDIRECT [1] ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, is a town in northwestern Turkey. ...

After the war Casey worked for engineering and mining firms until 1924, when Prime Minister Stanley Bruce appointed him his political liaison officer in London, a position he held until 1931, sending home confidential reports on political and economic matters, both for Bruce and for his Labor successor, James Scullin. In 1926 he married Maie Ryan, with whom he had two children. 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rt Hon Stanley Bruce Stanley Melbourne Bruce (15 April 1883 - August 25, 1967), Australian politician and diplomat, later Viscount Bruce of Melbourne and Westminster, was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Rt Hon James Scullin James Henry Scullin (September 18, 1876 - January 28, 1953), Australian politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the small town of Trawalla, in western Victoria, the son of a railway worker of Irish descent. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1931 Casey returned to Australia and was elected to the House of Representatives as United Australia Party MP for the Geelong-based seat of Corio. Prime Minister Joseph Lyons appointed him an assistant minister in 1933, and in 1935 he became Treasurer (finance minister). In 1939 Robert Menzies became Prime Minister for the first time. He saw Casey as a rival, and moved him to the lesser portfolio of Development. 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ... United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia. ... - - Nickname: City by the Bay Geography Area: 1,240 km² Coordinates: Time Zone UTC +10:00 Population (2003) 200,067 Among Australian cities: Density: persons/km² Political Mayor: Shane Dowling Governing body: City of Greater Geelong Geelong is a port city of 200,067 people (2003 census) located on Corio... The Division of Corio is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. ... Rt Hon Joseph Lyons Joseph Aloysius Lyons (September 15, 1879 - April 7, 1939), Australian politician and tenth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rt Hon Sir Robert Menzies Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia serving eighteen and a half years. ...

In 1940 Menzies appointed Casey as the first Australian Ambassador to the United States. This was a vital posting in wartime, but it also served to get Casey out of domestic politics. Casey was in Washington when the United States entered the war, and played an important role in establishing the alliance between the United States and Australia. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

Lord Casey with Mahatma Gandhi

Casey moved to Cairo in 1942 when Winston Churchill appointed him Minister Resident in the Middle East. In this role he played a key role in negotiating between the British and Allied governments, local leaders and the Allied commanders in the field. In 1944, when the Middle East ceased to be a military theatre, Casey was appointed Governor of Bengal, a post he held until 1946.He was felt to be a success in this role. An unusual friendship during this period was with the war hero, Lieutanant General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart, Churchill's representative to China. Casey and Gandhi The copyright status of this vintage image is undetermined; it may still be copyrighted. ... Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; romanized: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... This article is about the year. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali:বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880-1963) (VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO) was a British officer of Belgian and Irish descent. ...

In 1946 Casey returned to Australia, and became Federal President of the Liberal Party, the new party Menzies had formed in 1944 as part of his reorganisation of conservative politics in Australia. Although Menzies still saw Casey as a rival, and although Casey undoubtedly saw himself as a future Prime Minister, they formed an effective partnership. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian liberal conservative political party. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Liberals won the 1949 elections, and Casey returned to the House of Representatives as MP for a Melbourne seat. Menzies appointed him Minister for Supply and Development. In 1951, when the Minister for External Affairs, Percy Spender (another Menzies rival), was dispatched to the Washington embassy, Casey succeeded him. Casey held the External Affairs post during the height of the Cold War, the Suez Crisis, the war in Indo-China and other major world events. He formed close relations with Anthony Eden, John Foster Dulles and other leaders. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... For the generic term for a high-tension rivalry between countries, see cold war (war). ... HMS Eagle, Bulwark, and Albion of the British Royal Navy. ... Indochina, or French Indochina, was a federation of French colonies and protectorates in south-east Asia, part of the French colonial empire. ... The Right Honourable Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897–14 January 1977), British politician, was Foreign Secretary during World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1950s. ... John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles (February 2, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from (1953 - 1959). ...

Casey retired in 1960, and was created "Baron Casey, of Berwick in the State of Victoria and the Commonwealth of Australia, and of the City of Westminister", becoming the third and last Australian politician (after Sir John Forrest and Stanley Bruce) to be elevated to the House of Lords. In 1965 Menzies appointed him Governor-General - the first time a conservative Prime Minister had appointed an Australian to the post. 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... John Forrest, from the collection of the National Library of Australia John Forrest, 1st Baron Forrest of Bunbury, PC, GCMG (22 August 1847–2 September 1918), commonly known as Sir John Forrest, was an Australian explorer, the first premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australias first... Rt Hon Stanley Bruce Stanley Melbourne Bruce (15 April 1883 - August 25, 1967), Australian politician and diplomat, later Viscount Bruce of Melbourne and Westminster, was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

One of the arguments against appointing an Australian, particularly a former politician, as Governor-General had always been that they would be too closely involved with Australian personalities and issues to perform their constitutional role impartially. This became an acute issue for Casey in December 1967, when Prime Minister Harold Holt died. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rt Hon Harold Holt Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 - 19 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 - 1967, now best remembered for the bizarre circumstances of his death. ...

Casey could have commissioned the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, William McMahon, as acting Prime Minister, but instead he commissioned John McEwen, the leader of Liberals' coalition partner, the Country Party. It was later alleged that Casey did this in order to prevent McMahon having an advantage in the Liberal Party's ballot for a new leader, since he shared the view of some Liberals that McMahon would not be a suitable successor. Rt Hon Sir William McMahon The Right Honourable Sir William McMahon (23 February 1908 – 31 March 1988), Australian politician and 20th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where his father was a lawyer. ... Rt Hon John McEwen Sir John McEwen (March 29, 1900 - November 20, 1980), Australian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Australia, was born at Chiltern, Victoria, where his father was a pharmacist. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party, originally called the Country Party, adopting the name of National Country Party in 1975 and adopting its present name in 1982. ...

This matter was aired in a 1969 book, The Power Struggle, by veteran political journalist Alan Reid. Casey's biographer, W J Hudson says (in his 1986 book Casey) that Casey was concerned to preserve the Liberal-Country Party coalition, and that he knew (because McEwen told him) that the Country Party would not serve under McMahon. If this was his motive for commissioning McEwen rather than McMahon, it suggests that he did take political considerations into account in making his decision. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Casey left office in 1969 and he and his wife retired to their farm at Berwick in Victoria. Casey never fully recovered from a car accident in 1974, and died in June 1976. The municipality which includes Berwick is now called the City of Casey. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... The place-name Berwick may refer to: Berwick, Victoria, Australia Berwick, Sussex, England Berwick, Louisiana, United States Berwick, Maine, United States Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States Berwick-upon-Tweed, England North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Further reading

• R G Casey, Australian Foreign Minister, Collins 1972
• R G Casey, Personal Experience, Comstable 1962
• W J Hudson, Casey, Oxford University Press 1986
• Alan Reid, The Power Struggle, Tartan Press 1969

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