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Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game GCB GCVO GBE KCMG DSO RAF (
30 March 1876 –
4 February 1961) was a British
Royal Air Force commander and
Governor of
New South Wales,
Australia.
Early and family life
Philip Game was born in
Streatham,
Surrey in
England on
30 March 1876 to George Beale Game, a merchant from
Broadway in
Worcestershire and his wife Clara, née Vincent. Before entering the Army, he was educated at
Charterhouse. In 1908 he married Gwendoline Margaret Hughes-Gibb. They had three children, Philip (known as Bill), David and Rosemary.
Military service
Following officer training at the
Royal Military Academy Woolwich, Game was commissioned into the
British Army on
2nd November 1895. During the early part of the
First World War, he served as a staff officer and in early
1916 Game transferred to the
Royal Flying Corps as a result of
Hugh Trenchard's request for an experienced staff officer to serve in his HQ. Game transferred to the
Royal Air Force on its creation in
1918. In
1922 he was promoted to the rank of
Air Vice-Marshal and appointed
Air Officer Commanding RAF India. The next year he took up the post of
Air Member for Personnel, which he was to hold for over five years until his retirement from the RAF in
1929.
Governor of New South Wales
He was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1930, serving until 1935. Along with the
Premier Jack Lang and others, Game was a participant at the official opening of the
Sydney Harbour Bridge on
19 March,
1932, where he made a speech.
After the
United Australia Party federal government of
Joseph Lyons came to power in January 1932, it passed the
Financial Agreement Enforcement Act, forcing the NSW government to adhere to its debt commitments and to cut government spending (see also
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13 May 1932 the Governor dismissed Lang's government and appointed the UAP leader,
Bertram Stevens, as Premier. Stevens immediately called an
election, at which Lang's
party was heavily defeated.
This was the only case of an Australian government with the confidence of the lower house of parliament being dismissed by a Vice-Regal representative, until
Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam's government on
11 November,
1975.
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
After his term ended, Game returned to Britain. He served as
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1935 until 1945. In 1943, in an attempt to prevent burglaries, Game urged householders not to keep furs, adapting a verse from Chapter 9 of
Ecclesiastes saying, Towards the end of his time as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Game worked to establish a boys' club. The Sir Philip Game Boys' Club, situated in the London borough of Croydon, was opened in
1946.
Sir Philip Game died on
4 February 1961.
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