Sir Bruce Greatbatch, (10 June 1917 – 20 July 1989) was the British
Governor of the Seychelles
This is a list of colonial governors of Seychelles, an archipelago, archipelagic island country in the Indian Ocean. Seychelles was first History of Seychelles#French settlement and rule, colonized by the French in 1770, and captured by the Bri ...
from 1969 to 1973.
Biography
Greatbatch was educated at
Malvern
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and
Brasenose College
Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the m ...
in the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
. Greatbatch oversaw the
forced deportation of the Chagossians between 1968 and 1973. He and his subordinate,
John Rawling Todd
John Rawling Todd () (February 1929 – 18 July 2002) was a British colonial civil servant. He held progressively senior roles in the administration of British Hong Kong, and served as Secretary for Housing from 1986 to 1988. Earlier in his car ...
, were accused of ordering the island's dog population of 1,000 to be gassed as a means of intimidating the Chagossians before deportation. The deportation was carried out at the request of the
United States government
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in order to construct a military base on
Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is a militarised atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of the 60 small islands o ...
.
References
External links
"British-US conspiracy to steal a nation"by
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962. He was also once visiting professor at Cornell University in New York.
Pilger ...
1917 births
1989 deaths
People educated at Malvern College
Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
Governors of British Seychelles
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Knights of the Order of St John
British expatriates in Seychelles
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