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SUBJECT: GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,
FALKLAND ISLANDS
Mr and Mrs Hunt will be received in Audience
by Her Majesty on Wednesday, 14 April. The following
is a short curriculum vitae:
Mr Rex Masterman Hunt CMG (1980)
Mr Hunt has been Governor and Commander-in-Chief
of the Falkland Islands since February 1980.
He is also High Commissioner, British Antarctic
Territory. Born on 29 June 1926, Mr Hunt served
in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1948.
He joined Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service.
and served in Uganda from 1951 to 1963, retiring
in 1963 as District Commissioner. He then joined
the Commonwealth Relations Office. He has served
in Kuching (1964), Jesselton (1965), Brunei (1967
and Jakarta (1970). He went to Saigon in 1974
as Counsellor and was evacuated in April 1975
on the fall of Saigon. Before going to Port
Stanley he served in Kuala Lumpur.
Married 1951 (Mavis Amanda
Buckland).
Two children (a dauther (1962) and a son (1964).
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