Howard Pearce
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His Excellency Howard John Stredder Pearce, CVO (born April 13, 1949 in Twickenham) is the current Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI). He assumed both positions on December 3, 2002. Before his appointment, Pearce was High Commissioner to Malta from 1999 to 2002. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1972.
Pearce married Caroline Thomée, a Dutch architect and photographer in October 2004. He is the first Governor to marry in the Falkland Islands. On the day of the wedding, local schoolchildren were given the day off. A bell was also rung at a church in Grytviken on South Georgia.
On July 27, 2005, it was announced that Pearce will soon be leaving the Falklands in order to take a different job within the FCO. In Spring 2006 he will be succeeded as Falkland Islands Governor and SGSSI Civil Commissioner by Alan Huckle, the current governor of Anguilla, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
External links and sources
- [SARTMA: Breezy Wedding for Falklands Governor]
- [South Georgia Newsletter, October 2004]
- [First Governor to wed in the Falkland Islands]
- [FCO: Change of Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]
- [The World Factbook - Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)]
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