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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, the third son and seventh child of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex in 1874. On 13 March 1879, Arthur married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, the daughter of Prince Friedrich of Prussia and a grand-niece of the German Emperor Wilhelm I, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. They had three children; Like his elder brothers, he received his early education from tutors. Prince Arthur became interested in the army at an early age. In 1866, he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and received a commission as a lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers two years later. He later transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery and then to the Rifle Brigade. Arthur had a long and distinguished career in the British Army that included service in South Africa, Canada, Ireland, Egypt in 1882 and in India from 1886 to 1890. On 1 April 1893, he was promoted to the rank of general. Arthur had hoped to succeed his first cousin once-removed, the elderly Duke of Cambridge, as commander-in-chief of the British Army, upon the latter's forced retirement in 1895. However, this was denied to him. Instead, he held command in the southern district of Aldershot from 1893 to 1898. Arthur became a Field Marshal on 26 June 1902. He served in various important positions thereafter, as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland (1900–1904); Inspector-General of the Forces (1904–1907) and as Governor General of Canada (1911–1916). In 1910, Arthur travelled to South Africa onboard the Union-Castle Line ship Balmoral Castle to open the first parliament of the newly formed Union of South Africa. On November 30, 1910 in Johannesburg he laid a commemorative stone at the Rand Regiments Memorial, a memorial dedicated to the British sold
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