Winston Dugan , 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria Major - General Winston Joseph Dugan , 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria GCMG , CB , DSO , KStJ ( 3 September 187617 August 1951 ) , known as Sir Winston Dugan between 1934 and 1949 , was a British administrator and a career British Army officer . He served as Governor of South Australia from 1934 to 1939 , then Governor of Victoria until 1949 . Background and education . Dugan was the son of Charles Winston Dugan , of Oxmantown Mall , Birr , County Offaly , Ireland , an inspector of schools . His mother was born Esther Elizabeth Rogers . He attended Lurgan College , Craigavon , Ireland from 1887 to 1889 , and Wimbledon College , Wimbledon , London , England . The family name was pronounced as " Duggan " . They were originally from County Galway and were a branch of the Soghain people . Military career . Dugan fought with distinction in the Second Boer War and the First World War , where he was wounded and mentioned in despatches six times . He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) in 1915 and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) in 1918 . In 1929 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB ) and the following year he was promoted to Major - General . From 1931 to 1934 he commanded the 56 ( 1st London ) Division , Territorial Army . Governor of South Australia . In 1934 , Dugan was appointed Governor of South Australia . He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) , retired from the Army and moved to Adelaide with his wife . They became an extremely popular and glamorous vice - regal couple . Sir Winston and Lady Dugan were both excellent public speakers , and travelled widely in order to bring problems to the attention of the ministers of the day . He gave moral and financial support to numerous good causes and needy individuals . Upon the expiration of his term , there was bipartisan parliamentary support for him to serve a second term , but he had already accepted an appointment to be Governor of Victoria . Governor of Victoria . Sir Winston and Lady Dugan arrived in Melbourne on 17 July 1939 . They continued their active role in community affairs , promoting unemployment reduction and making the ballroom of Government House available for the Australian Red Cross . Dugan had an active role stabilising state politics during the tumultuous 1940s . Upon the disintegraton of Albert Dunstan ' s Country Party in 1943 , he installed the Labor leader John Cain as Premier . Four days later , Dunstan formed a coalition with the United Australia Party . Following the collapse of that ministry in 1945 , Dugan dissolved parliament and called a general election for November , which resulted in the balance of power being held by independents . Dugan commissioned Cain to form the ministry of a minority government . Dugan ' s term as Governor was extended five times . He was also the Administrator of the Commonwealth on two occasions : from 5 September 1944 to 30 January 1945 , between the departure of the Governor - General Lord Gowrie and the arrival of his successor Prince Henry , Duke of Gloucester ; and from 19 January to 11 March 1947 , between the departure of the Duke of Gloucester and the appointment of his successor , William McKell . He returned to England in February 1949 . On 7 July 1949 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dugan of Victoria , of Lurgan in the County of Armagh . Personal life . Lord Dugan of Victoria married Ruby Lilian , daughter of Charles Abbott of Kilcaskan , County Cork , in 1912 . There were no children from the marriage . He died at Marylebone , London , on 17 August 1951 , aged 74 , when the barony became extinct .