Patrick Duncan

Patrick Duncan

Patrick Duncan

Patrick Duncan (1870-1943) fue el Gobernador General de la Unión de Sudáfrica entre 1937 y 1943. Durante una crisis política sobre la participación de Sudáfrica en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, él rechazó una disolución del parlamento solicitada por el Primer Ministro Barry Hertzog y así volvió Jan Smuts al poder.

Su hijo, también llamado Patrick Duncan (f. 1967), fue un conocido activista anti-apartheid.

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