Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands
GCMG
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KA QC (5 August 1926
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. He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of Nita Barrow
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, until he retired on 31 October 2011. He was the longest-serving Barbadian Governor-General.
Husbands died suddenly of a heart attack
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on 11 October 2017 at the age of 91.Former Barbados Governor-General Sir Clifford Husbands is dead
/ref> He was predeceased by his wife, Lady Ruby Husbands (née Parris), who died on 7 July 2009.
See also
*Governor-General of Barbados
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