Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate GCMG (13 December 1862 — 2 January 1936) was Governor of Tasmania from 1917 to 1920, and Governor of Western Australia from 1920 to 1924. Born in 1862, he was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Francis William Newdigate and his first wife Charlotte Elizabeth Agnes Sophia Woodford, and grandson of Francis Parker Newdigate. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1883. He married Elizabeth Sophia Lucia Bagot on 13 October 1888.