Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron Northcote

Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron Northcote (born Nov. 18, 1846, London, Eng.—died Sept. 29, 1911, Ashford, Kent) was a British diplomat and administrator, governor-general of Australia from 1904 to 1908. The second son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (afterward 1st Earl of Iddesleigh), he attended Eton College and Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1869; M.A., 1873). He became a Foreign Office clerk in 1868 and, as an aide, accompanied his father to Washington, D.C., in 1871 in...