Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context UK English) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative. 2 An official in a similar position in other countries. n. 1 (context UK English) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative. 2 An official in a similar position in other countries.
Wikipedia
Governor-general or governor general, in modern usage, is the title of an office-holder appointed to represent the monarch of a sovereign state in the governing of an independent realm. Governors-general have also previously been appointed in respect of major colonial states or other territories held by either a monarchy or republic, such as French Indochina.
Usage examples of "governor-general".
But as in Lower Canada it was almost impossible that the assembly would be brought to act beneficially, it would be competent to the governor-general, both in the upper and lower province, to hold elections for persons, amounting to twenty in the whole, to concert with him upon the general state of affairs.
In another proclamation Lord Ellenborough announced that all the Affghans then in the power of the British government should be permitted to return to their own country, and that the Affghan chiefs who were thus released, were, before they passed the Sutlej, to present themselves at the durbar, or levee, of the governor-general in his camp at Ferozepore.
Flint just before she sat down with Bowles and the governor-general for the interview.
She listened as the interview became a jousting session between Bowles and the governor-general, learned that manipulating the press had a whole new meaning when it was done by someone with experience and skill.
Barukzye chiefs were unfitted, under any circumstances, to be useful allies to Great Britain, or aid us in our measures of national defence, the governor-general felt warranted in espousing the cause of Shah Soojah, whose popularity had been proved by the best authorities.
The writer of the letter was banished to Marseilles, or to the Island of Hyeres, but the individual who dictated it continued a Marshal, a Prince, and a Governor-General, and still looked forward to the Viceroyalty of Poland!
In the mean time a younger brother of the governor-general had rescued Poonah from the Mahratta troops of Holkar, and had re-established the Peishwa in his capital.
When the cardinal-infante had become the governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands both he and Scaglia had offered their services to the young Spanish nobleman.
Semipalatinsk, Wrangel stopped in Omsk to pay his respects to the Governor-General, F.
I have been Governor-General of Cuba, Civil Governor of the Moro Province, and Commanding General of the Philippine Division.
Her majesty, in her speech on the prorogation of parliament, alluded to an army which the governor-general had led across the Indus.
On the 18th of December, when Shere Singh was at the head of a numerous force, Major Lawrence was brought to his camp with the object of using him for negotiations with the governor-general.
In addition to the means for suppressing the insurrection, the bill would authorise the governor-general to grant a general amnesty.
On his way thither he touched at Singapore, where he received news of the Indian mutiny, and a request from the governor-general of India to detach a portion of his force to assist in suppressing the mutiny then raging there.
In 1892 he was appointed agent to the governor-general in Baluchistan, in succession to Sir Robert Sandeman, his intimate experience of the Baluchis, gained during his railway work, having specially fitted him for this post.