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From September 1964 until December 1971 the island was occupied by the Faed family – Angus Faed, his wife Susan Faed and their four children, Colin, Erik, Colette and Amanda. Mrs Susan Faed was the 22nd tenant of Jethou.][
In the 1950s and 60s the island was open to the public. During that period ]postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the f ...
s were issued. Local stamps on the Bailiwick of Guernsey
The Bailiwick of Guernsey (french: Bailliage de Guernesey; Guernésiais: ''Bailliage dé Guernési'') is an island country off the coast of France as one of the three Crown Dependencies.
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were banned on 1 October 1969, and the Isle of Jethou was closed to the public from 1970.
In 1972, Charles Hayward, founder of the Firth Cleveland Group of Companies, purchased the Crown tenancy of the island and lived there with his wife Elsie Darnell George until his death in 1983.
In 1996 the island was leased by Sir Peter Ogden of IT company Computacenter.
It was recognised in 2016 as an area of international environmental importance under the Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands). It is also known as the Convention on Wetlands. It ...
.
It is flanked by two islets, Crevichon to the north and Fauconnière to the south. There is one house on the island and two cottages as well as a large garage where vehicles such as quad bikes and tractor
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commo ...
s are stored.
Governance
Unlike the largely autonomous islands of Sark and Alderney
Alderney (; french: Aurigny ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependencies, Crown dependency. It is long and wide.
The island's area is , making i ...
within the Bailiwick, Jethou is administered entirely by the States of Guernsey, and elects members to the States of Deliberation as part of the St. Peter Port South electoral district.
Wildlife
At the back (east) of Jethou, puffins can be seen swimming off the rocks.
Jethou in popular culture
The British 1957 musical '' Free as Air'' by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade was set on the fictitious island of 'Terhou', which was based on Jethou.
Mary Gentle's 2007 novel '' Ilario: The Stone Golem'' has a villainous noblewoman exiled to a convent in Jethou.
See also
* List of tenants of Jethou
References
Bibliography
* ''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'' (Oxford University Press
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, 1971)
External links
Jethou homepage
Free Gutenberg Project book, ''Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles'' by Ernest R. Suffling
1998 Stamps Catalogue by Anders Backman – Freenee
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Bailiwick of Guernsey
Private islands of the Channel Islands
Ramsar sites in Guernsey