Gipps Sir George 1791-1847 Born At Ringwould England Educated At
King's School, Canterbury, and at the Military Academy, Woolwich.
Entered the army, 1809; served throughout the Peninsular War; employed
in the West Indies, 1824-1829; appointed private secretary to the first
lord of the Admiralty, 1834; sent to Canada as commissioner, together
with Lord Gosford and Sir Charles Grey, to attempt to allay prevailing
discontent, 1835; knighted, 1835; governor of New South Wales,
1836-1846. =Index=: (Louis Joseph Papineau era) Royal commissioner sent to Canada with Lord
Gosford and Sir Charles Grey, in 1835, 111. =Bib.=: Morgan, Cel. Can.;
Dict. Nat. Biog.; Lang, New South Wales.