Philip Game

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game (30 March 1876 - 4 February 1961) was a British airforce commander and later a governor in Australia.

He was appointed Governor of New South Wales in 1930, serving until 1935. Along with the State 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.

Less than two months later, on 13 May, he dismissed Lang's government for refusing to abandon an apparently illegal policy and issuing a leaflet in defiance of Game. This was the only case of an Australian government with the confidence of the lower house being dismissed by a Vice-Regal representative, until Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam's government on 11 November 1975.

After his term ended, Game returned to Britain, and died there in 1961.






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