Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada
Freeman-Thomas c. 1915
A 1916 charity stamp for the Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund organised by Lady Willingdon.
Mahatma Gandhi, whose return to India and subsequent nationalistic activities would cause problems for Willingdon as Crown Governor of Bombay and Madras
The Viscount Willingdon inspects the Governor General's Foot Guards on Parliament Hill as part of the Dominion Day celebrations, 1927, the 60th jubilee of Canadian Confederation
Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation.
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
…with the governorship of Bombay and then the governorship of Madras, before he was in 1926 appointed as the Governor-General of Canada to replace the Viscount Byng of Vimy, occupying the post until succeeded by the Earl of Bessborough in 1931. Willingdon was immediately thereafter appointed as Viceroy and Governor-General…
Byng in 1921
Portrait of Byng by Philip Alexius de Laszlo as GOC 1st Cavalry Brigade, 1907.
The Prince of Wales, the Earl of Athlone, General Byng and King George V with a German helmet on Thiepval Ridge, July 1917.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (centre front) with his senior commanders and staff officers at Cambrai, France, November 1918. Stood in the second row, directly behind Haig, is General Byng, GOC Third Army.