governor general 
noun (plural governors general)
The chief representative of the Crown in a Commonwealth country of which the British monarch is head of state.‘It is with deep regret and after much thought that I have today advised the Prime Minister that I wish to resign from the office of Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia,’ he added....
- The first Governor General of British Bengal was appointed because he was well versed in Urdu and Persian.
- In Singapore, in the late 1940s, he was the British Governor General for South East Asia and later in Kenya he had played the role of a diplomat.