What is Ralph Darling?
{{Infobox Officeholder |honorific-prefix = Lieutenant-General Sir |name = Ralph Darling GCH |image = Ralph Darling.jpg |imagesize = 250px |smallimage = |caption = |order = 7th |office = Governor of New South Wales |term_start = 19 December 1825 |term_end = 22 October 1831 |predecessor = [[Thomas Brisbane |Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane]] |successor = [[Richard Bourke|Major-General Sir Richard Bourke KCB]] |constituency = |majority = |order2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |office2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |term_start2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |term_end2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |predecessor2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |successor2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |birth_date = 1772 |birth_place = |death_date = 2 April 1858 |death_place = [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]], [[England]] |party = |otherparty = <!--For additional political affiliations--> |spouse = Eliza Dumaresq |partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> |occupation = |profession = }} General Sir '''Ralph Darling''' (1772—1858) was an officer in the [[British Army]] and the [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1825—1831.<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= |first= |authorlink= |year= 1966 |id= darling-sir-ralph-1956 |title= Darling, Sir Ralph (1772–1858) |accessdate= 24 June 2012 }}</ref> Darling was the first governor to work with an Executive Council, made up of the lieutenant-governor, chief justice, colonial secretary and the archdeacon. These four people and another three people that Darling could select would make up the Legislative Counc