Darling, Sir Ralph
Darling, Sir Ralph ( 1775 – 1858 )British military commander and colonial administrator. He was the governor of New South Wales from 1825 until 1831 . A rigid disciplinarian, he faced many difficulties, largely because of continuing conflict between emancipists and exclusionists in the colony. In the controversial Sudds and Thompson affair ( 1826 ) Darling's harsh punishment of these two soldiers was, in popular opinion, responsible for the death of Sudds. The continued agitation over instances of alleged misgovernment resulted in a British House of Commons select committee of inquiry ( 1835 ), which exonerated him.
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