Bede Clifford
Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford GCMG CB MVO (3 July 1890 – 6 October 1969)[1][2][3] was a British diplomat and colonial administrator,[4] born in New Zealand, where his parents had moved in an unsuccessful attempt at sheep-farming.[5]
His parents were William Hugh Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and Catherine Mary Bassett. After New Zealand they moved to Tasmania; he did not attend a regular school until he was 10. He attended Melbourne University, then became a surveyor, then a merchant navy officer.[6]
Career
After serving as an army captain in the Royal Fusiliers during World War I, he worked in imperial administration and diplomacy. From 1917 he was aide-de-camp, then secretary to the Governor-General of Australia, before taking the similar position in South Africa in 1921, as secretary to Prince Arthur of Connaught.[7] He was Governor of the Bahamas from 1932 to 1934,[8] and then was the 24th Governor of Mauritius from 23 October 1937 to 16 April 1942.[9] He then became Governor of Trinidad and Tobago from 1942 to 1947.[10]
Family
He married Alice Devin Gundry in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He retired to England, where he died. One of his daughters, Anne Frances May Clifford, married John Julius Norwich; they are the parents of the historian Artemis Cooper. His great granddaughter (by another daughter) is Samantha Cameron, wife of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron.
References
- ^ https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=126537918
- ^ https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Bede-Edmund-Hugh-Clifford-G-C-M-G-C-B-M-V-O/6000000009490287508
- ^ https://www.aspiringmindstandt.com/sir-bede-clifford
- ^ ‘CLIFFORD, Captain Hon. Sir Bede Edmund Hugh’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014
- ^ Fuller bio than here
- ^ Fuller bio than here
- ^ Fuller bio than here
- ^ http://thepeerage.com/p6270.htm#i62691
- ^ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mauritius.htm
- ^ Fuller bio than here
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- 1890 births
- 1969 deaths
- New Zealand Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- New Zealand Companions of the Order of the Bath
- New Zealand Members of the Royal Victorian Order
- Younger sons of barons
- New Zealand people of English descent
- New Zealand emigrants to Australia
- New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Royal Fusiliers officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- University of Melbourne alumni
- Governors of Trinidad and Tobago
- Governors of British Mauritius
- British governors of the Bahamas