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Robert FitzRoy, English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (born 1805)

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Robert FitzRoy

Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist who served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second…
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Governor-General of New Zealand

Representative of the monarch of New Zealand

The governor-general of New Zealand is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand, currently King Charles III. As the King is concurrently the monarch of 14 other Commonwealth realms and lives in the United Kingdom, he, on the advice of his New Zealand prime minister,…
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