Ronald Herbert Garvey

Sir Ronald Herbert Garvey KCMG KCVO MBE (born July 4, 1903 in Lincolnshire - † May 31, 1991 ) was a British colonial administrator and governor .

Important offices

From 1938 to 1939 he held the office of permanent commissioner (Resident Commissioner) of the crown colony of the Gilbert and Ellica islands , later Kiribati . Garvey was administrator of St. Vincent and the Grenadines from 1944 to 1948 and governor of British Honduras from February 28, 1949 to October 21, 1952 . On October 6, 1952, he became governor of the Fiji Islands and held this office until October 28, 1958. During this time he was also President of the Fijian Native Land Trust Board . From 1959 to 1966 he was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man .

In 1984 he published his autobiography Gentleman pauper .

He was married to Patricia Dorothy, nee McGusty, daughter of the medical doctor Victor William Tighe McGusty .

literature

• Ronald Garvey: Gentleman pauper . Anchor Publications, Bognor Regis 1984, ISBN 0-948016-02-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .
2. ↑ http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html
3. ^ Fiji's Chiefs and Rulers 1700s to date
4. ↑ http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp71800

predecessor	Office	successor
Edward Gerald Hawkesworth	Governor of British Honduras 1949–1952	Patrick Muir Renison
Leslie Brian Freeston	Governor of the Fiji Islands 1952–1958	Kenneth Phipson Maddocks
Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas	Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 1959–1966	Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard