Monarch Elizabeth II Name Frank Lynch-Staunton Premier Peter Lougheed Education University of Alberta | Preceded by Ralph Steinhauer Succeeded by Helen Hunley Nationality Canadian | |
Governor General Edward Schreyer
Jeanne Sauve Born March 8, 1905
Pincher Creek, Alberta ( 1905-03-08 ) Spouse(s) Monica Adam (m. 1929)
Muriel B. Shaw (m. 1983) Died September 25, 1990, Edmonton, Canada | ||
Francis Charles "Frank" Lynch-Staunton, (March 8, 1905 – September 25, 1990) was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1979 to 1985.
Biography
Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, the son of Richard Lynch-Staunton and Isabelle Mary Wilson, he attended Western Canadian College in Calgary from 1919 to 1922. From 1923 to 1927, he studied engineering at the University of Alberta. In 1929, he married Monica Adam. They had three children: Betty Lowe, Marina Field, and Hugh. After her death in 1976, he married Muriel B. Shaw in 1983. He published his autobiography, Greener Pastures: The Memoirs of F. Lynch-Staunton, in 1987. Frank Lynch-Staunton died in Edmonton after suffering a stroke in 1990, aged 85.
References
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