Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands

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KA QC (5 August 1926Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders
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Governor-General of Barbados The governor-general of Barbados was the representative of the Barbadian monarch from independence in 1966 until the establishment of a republic in 2021. Under the government's Table of Precedence for Barbados, the governor-general of Barbado ...

. He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of

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, until he retired on 31 October 2011. He was the longest-serving Barbadian Governor-General. Husbands died suddenly of a

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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.

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