WEST INDIES POST
New Zealander As Governor Mr I. G. Turbott, a New Zealander, has been sworn in as the first Governor of Grenada, in the West Indies. A brother of Mr G. G. Turbott, registrar of the University of Canterbury, and Mr E. G. Turbott, director of the Auckland Museum, Mr lan Turbott was born in 1922. He was educated at the Takapuna Grammar School and Auckland University College, and then went to Jesus College, Cambridge, and London University. He served with the New Zealand forces in the Pacific and the Middle East. After the war he served in Fiji and then as administrative officer, Secretary to the Government, and District Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From 1956 to 1958 he was seconded to the Foreign Office, and in 1958 became Administrator of Antigua. In 1964 he was appointed Administrator of Grenada.
Mr Turbott became a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1962, a commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1964 and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1966, after the Royal visit to Grenada.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 12
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