David Murray Anderson
Royal Navy admiral
Died when: 62 years 202 days (750 months)Star Sign: Aries
Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson, KCB KCMG MVO KStJ (11 April 1874 – 30 October 1936) was a British naval officer and governor.Anderson served in the Royal Navy from the age of 13 and served in many colonial wars and was given various Empire postings, rising to the rank of admiral in 1931.
He retired a year later and took up the posting as Governor of Newfoundland, where he also took up the role of Chairman of the Government following the suspension of self-government in the Dominion of Newfoundland.
Leaving Newfoundland in 1935, he was appointed as Governor of New South Wales but served only briefly due to his ill health.
He died while in office aged 62.
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