Hamilton Goold-Adams

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix = Sir
name = Hamilton Goold-Adams
honorific-suffix =
GCMG, CB

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order = 12th
office = Governor of Queensland
term_start = 15 March 1915
term_end = 3 February 1920
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monarch = King George V
predecessor = Sir William MacGregor
successor = Sir Matthew Nathan
birth_date = birth date|1858|6|27|df=y
birth_place = County Cork, Ireland, UK
death_date = death date and age|1920|4|12|1858|6|27|df=y
death_place = Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
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spouse = Elsie Riordan
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children = Richard John Moreton Goold-Adams
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Major Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, GCMG, CB (27 June 1858 – 12 April 1920) was an Irish soldier and colonial administrator who was Governor of Queensland in Australia from 1915 to 1920.

Born in the town of Jamesbrook in County Cork, Ireland, Goold-Adams was apprenticed on a training ship until he decided to join the British Army and was commissioned in the Royal Scots Regiment, serving principally in southern Africa, where he achieved the rank of captain in 1885 and major in 1895. He was made Deputy Commissioner and later Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony under Governor Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner from 1901 to 1907. He was made CMG in 1902 and GCMG in 1907. He also fought in the Second Boer War, where he was Mentioned in Despatches and was involved with the Siege of Mafeking.

He returned to England in 1911 where he married a Canadian named Elsie Riordan on 4 July. Later that year he was appointed British High Commissioner to Cyprus. In 1914 he was made Governor of Queensland, and arrived in Brisbane just before the election of Queensland's first majority Labor government, under Premier T. J. Ryan. He occasionally disapproved of Labor's policies and majority appointments to the Legislative Council of Queensland.

Returning to England after his retirement, Goold-Adams contracted pleurisy on board ship, and died in Cape Town, South Africa in 1920.

References

*D. J. Murphy, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090049b.htm 'Goold-Adams, Sir Hamilton John (1858 - 1920)'] , "Australian Dictionary of Biography", Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, p. 50.
*Elizabeth Main: "Man of Mafeking: The Bechuanaland Years of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, 1884-1901", Botswana Society (Botswana), 1996.