page_title: Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: frederick john dealtry lugard and wife
context_page_description: Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, GCMG, CB, DSO, PC, known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Hong Kong, the last Governor of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate, the first High Commissioner and last Governor of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the first Governor-General of Nigeria.
context_section_description: Lugard married, on 10 June 1902, Flora Shaw, daughter of Major-General George Shaw, and granddaughter of Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet. She was a writer for The Times and coined the place-name Nigeria. There were no children from the marriage. She died in January 1929; Lugard survived her by sixteen years and died on 11 April 1945, aged 87. Since he was childless, the barony became extinct. He was cremated at Woking Crematorium.
caption: Lord and Lady Lugard.
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