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Monarch
  
Name
  
Frank Lynch-Staunton

Premier
  
Preceded by
  
Succeeded by
  
Nationality
  
Canadian


Governor General
  
Edward SchreyerJeanne Sauve

Born
  
March 8, 1905Pincher 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

Frank C. Lynch-Staunton Wikipedia


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