Marguerite Pindling
Dame Marguerite Pindling | |
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 Pindling in May 2017 | |
| 9th Governor-General of the Bahamas | |
| Assumed office 8 July 2014 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Sir Arthur Foulkes |
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| Born | Marguerite Matilda McKenzie 26 June 1932 Long Bay Cay, Bahamas |
| Died | honorific-suffixGCMG |
| Resting place | honorific-suffixGCMG |
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Dame Marguerite Matilda, Lady Pindling GCMG (née McKenzie; born 26 June 1932) has been the Governor-General of the Bahamas since 8 July 2014.[1] She is the second female Governor-General after Dame Ivy Dumont.
Marguerite McKenzie was born to Reuben and Viola McKenzie in South Andros on 26 June 1932.[1] She moved to Nassau in 1946 to live with her sister and attended the Western Senior School.[2] She later became an assistant to photographer Stanley Toogood. Soon after, she met Lynden Pindling, who would go on to be Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992. The couple married on 5 May 1956 and remained married until his death on 26 August 2000.[3] The couple had four children.[2]
She was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.[4] [3]
References
- ^ a b "Bahamas New Governor General Announced". The Bahamas Weekly. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ a b "Dame Marguerite Pindling Sworn In As 10th Governor General of the Bahamas". Caribbean Elections. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "The life and times of Dame Marguerite Pindling, October 28th", Bahamas Historical Society. Bahamas Weekly, 23 October 2010,
- ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2207034
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