Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey, was an Australian politician, diplomat, and the 16th Governor-General of Australia. Casey was born in Brisbane, Queensland. His father, also named Richard Gardiner Casey, was a wealthy pastoralist and Queensland state politician of Irish descent. His mother, Evelyn, was the daughter of George Harris, another wealthy pastoralist and Queensland state politician. His father moved the family to Melbourne in 1893 and became a rich company director. Casey was educated at Cumloden School, St Kilda, and at Melbourne Grammar School. He enrolled for first-year engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1909, but then traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts.