Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1861-1930) was a career British civil servant in the Colonial Office who served as governor of Fiji (1901-1902), the Falkland Islands (1904-1914), Bahamas (1914-1920), Tasmania (1920-1922), and Newfoundland (1922-1928). The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet official in charge of managing the various British colonies. ... A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ... Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ... Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
His wife, Lady Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce, helped start the Girl Guide movement on the island in 1923, and the Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association (NONIA) in 1924.
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Profiles of Governors (http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g64.html)
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His great work, Piers Plowman, or, more precisely, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, is an allegorical poem in unrhymed alliterative verse, regarded as the greatest Middle English poem prior to Chaucer.
Most scholars now believe that at least the A- and B-texts are the work of William Langland, whose biography has been deduced from passages in the poem.
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