Sydney Gun-Munro

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Sir Sydney Douglas Gun-Munro , GCMG , MBE , FRCS , (born November 29, 1916 in Grenada , † March 1, 2007 in Bequia , Grenadines , St. Vincent and the Grenadines ) was a politician in the Caribbean state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines . From 1976 to 1979 he was the last governor of the British colony and from 1979 to 1985 the first governor general in the independent state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and thus representative of Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.

Life

Gun-Munro was the eighth child of Barclay Justin Gun-Munro from Scotland , who died in 1927 when Sydney Gun-Munro was eleven years old. He himself attended the Anglican Primary School in Grenada and then, with financial support from a scholarship, the Grenada Boys' Secondary School . He then received a grant from Grenada, which enabled him to study medicine at King's College Hospital in London and which he graduated in 1942 with a Bachelor of Medicine (BM) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). When the anatomy and physiology departments of King's College Hospital were moved to Glasgow during the Second World War , he became an employee there. On his return to London he became a surgeon at Horton Emergency Hospital in Epsom , but also continued to work at King's College Hospital. Then he was senior physician at Lewisham Hospital

After returning to Grenada, Gun-Munro worked as a district doctor between 1946 and 1949, before taking up a position as a surgeon at the Colonial Hospital in Kingstown , the capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in 1949, where he worked until 1971. For his services there he became a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on January 1, 1957 . In the meantime, he completed an advanced training course in ophthalmology in the United Kingdom and only received support from another surgeon in 1963 with a population of 90,000 at the time.

On January 1, 1977, he dissolved Rupert John as governor of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. As such, he was beaten to Knight Bachelor in 1977 and then carried the suffix "Sir". On October 27, 1979, he became the first governor general in the independent state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and thus representative of Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. On October 29, 1979 he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG). He held the office of Governor General until February 28, 1985 and was then replaced by Joseph Lambert Eustace .

Gun-Munro was married to the British nurse Joan Estelle Benjamin. From this marriage daughter Sandra and sons Rodney and Michael Gun-Munro were born.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40960, HMSO, London, December 28, 1956, p. 28 ( PDF , accessed April 20, 2017, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47125, HMSO, London, January 18, 1977, p. 715 ( PDF , accessed April 20, 2017, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47999, HMSO, London, November 9, 1979, p. 14063 ( PDF , accessed April 20, 2017, English).
  4. ↑ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Governors-general (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Gun-Munro, Sydney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gun-Munro, Sir Sydney Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vincentian politician, Governor General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenada
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2007
Place of death Bequia