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The Governor of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was the colonial head of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands civil service from 1892 until 1979. The post was established in 1892 with the title 'Resident Commissioner' by Governor of Fiji John Bates Thurston after the islands were made a British protectorate , having previously been under the ...
People who were British colonial governors (1972–79) or resident commissioners (1892–1971) of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From Tuvaluan independence in 1978 until Kiribati independence in 1979, the position was "Governor of the Ellice Islands".
Smith was the last governor of the united Gilbert and Ellice Islands before it was divided into Tuvalu and what later became Kiribati. [1] Smith was educated at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, University College London, and University College, Oxford. He joined the Colonial Service in 1950 and was stationed in Nigeria from 1951 to 1970.
Wallace served as the last colonial Governor of the Gilbert Islands from 1978 to 12 July 1979. [3] The Gilbert Islands, which separated from the neighboring Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) in 1975, became the independent nation of Kiribati on 12 July 1979. He also served as deputy governor of Gibraltar in his later life
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Sir John Osbaldiston Field KBE CMG (30 October 1913 – 22 February 1985) was a British colonial administrator who was the last Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 9 January 1970 and then, from 1 January 1972, the first Governor of this Crown Colony.
He remained in the islands until 1933. He has been the source of many people's impressions of the islands through his radio broadcast on BBC in the 1950s and his bestselling book A Pattern of Islands. Grimble later served as Governor of the Seychelles (1936–1942) and as Governor of the Windward Islands (1942–1948).