Sir John Huggins (1891–1971)
[Sir John Huggins.]
National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 3 May 2017. was a British colonial administrator in
Penang
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and subsequently Trinidad. He was
Governor of Jamaica
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from 1943 to 1951.
[Obituary: Lady Hambro.]
''The Times
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'', 25 April 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
He married
Molly Green
Molly, Lady Huggins, ''née'' Green (1907 – 11 September 1981) was a British activist and philanthropist.'Lady Huggins', ''The Times'', 16 September 1981, p. 12.
Life
Molly Huggins was born Molly Green in Singapore in 1907, the daughter of a ...
and they had three daughters. His second daughter, Cherry, became
Lady Hambro
Cherry Hambro, Baroness Hambro (4 December 1933 – 27 March 2017), born Cherry Felicity Huggins, was a British journalist who was associated with the fashion scene in 1960s swinging London when she worked for ''Vogue'', ''Queen'' magazine and as ...
.
[Lady Hambro, first fashion editor of the Telegraph magazine – obituary.]
''The Telegraph
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Australia
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'', 14 April 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
He was progressively promoted within the
Order of St Michael and St George
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...
, from Companion (CMG, 8 June 1939), to Knight Commander (KCMG, before 1946), to Knight Grand Cross (GCMG, 9 June 1949).
GCMG
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References
Governors of Jamaica
1891 births
1971 deaths
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Recipients of the Military Cross
British people in British Trinidad and Tobago
British people in British Malaya
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