Cosmo Haskard

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Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard , KCMG , MBE (* 25. November 1916 in Dublin ; † 21st February 2017 at Bantry , County Cork , Ireland ) was a British officer in the British Army and colonial official who from 1964 to 1970 Governor of the Falkland Islands was.

Life

Haskard was the son of Brigadier General John McDougall Haskard and his wife Alicia Isabella Hutchins received a master at Pembroke College of University of Cambridge . During his studies he served as a company sergeant in the university contingent and on April 1, 1937 was accepted as a lieutenant in the infantry in the OTC (Officers' Training Corps) . After training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst , he was an officer of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and during the Second World War was initially promoted to the rank of captain (was-noun captain) before he was finally promoted to captain after the end of the war on January 1, 1949 and it also the honorary rank of major (Honorary major) was awarded. He also became a member of the Order of the British Empire and was an officer of the Colonial Administration Service (HM Colonial Service) Provincial Commissioner in Nyasaland . As such, Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) was appointed on January 1, 1960 .

On August 19, 1964, Haskard was appointed as the successor to Edwin Porter Arrowsmith as governor of the Falkland Islands and commander in chief of the British troops stationed there. At the same time he was on September 9, 1964 the High Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory . on January 1, 1965 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". His successor as Governor of the Falkland Islands was Ernest Gordon Lewis in 1970 . In 1971 the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named Haskard Highlands , a mountain range of peaks and ridges in the East Antarctic Coatsland, in his honor .

He was married to Philida Stanley, whose father Robert Christopher Stafford Stanley was also a colonial official and, among other things, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Governor of the Solomon Islands . From this marriage his son Julian Dominic Haskard emerged.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34567, HMSO, London, November 4, 1938, p. 6892 ( PDF , accessed March 13, 2017, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38927, HMSO, London, June 4, 1950, p. 2723 ( PDF , accessed March 13, 2017, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41909, HMSO, London, January 1, 1960, p. 5 ( PDF , accessed March 13, 2017, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43424, HMSO, London, September 1, 1964, p. 7429 ( PDF , accessed March 13, 2017, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43439, HMSO, London, September 18, 1964, p. 7925 ( PDF , accessed March 13, 2017, English).
  6. ↑ Falkland Islands: Governors (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Haskard, Cosmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haskard, Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and governor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2017
Place of death near Bantry , County Cork , Ireland