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Peter Stallard

Peter Stallard

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Sir Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard KCMG CVO MBE (6 March 1915 – 25 October 1995) was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1967 to 1972.

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Career

Educated at Bromsgrove School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[1] Stallard joined the colonial service in Nigeria in 1937.[2] He served in West Africa and Burma during World War II being given an emergency commission in 1941 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel by the end of the War.[3] He later re-joined the colonial service, becoming Secretary to the Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria in 1957 in the run-up to independence[4] before moving on to be Governor of British Honduras in 1961, where he arrived in the aftermath of serious hurricane damage.[5] He retired in 1966.[6]

In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man:[7] in August 1973 the Summerland disaster took place.[8] and he had to contend with calls for independence from Manx people.[9] He later chaired an inquiry into military training on Dartmoor.[10]

Family

In 1941 he married Mary Elizabeth Kirke; they had one son and one daughter.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Oxford Gazette, 1995/6". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. [2]
    Debrett's People of Today, 1994.
  3. [3]
    "No. 35294". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 September 1941. p. 5713.
  4. [4]
    "No. 42051". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1960. p. 3976.
  5. [5]
    Hurricane Damage, Hansard, 7 December 1961.
  6. [6]
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  7. [7]
    World Leaders Index
  8. [8]
    The Island's Aftermath of Bitterness.
  9. [9]
    Interview with Sir Peter Stallard. British Film Institute.
  10. [10]
    Commons Written Answers to Questions Archived 2011-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, Hansard, 17 July 1978.
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