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Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, CMG (29 June 1926 – 11 November 2012) was a British Government diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice Admiral of the Falkland Islands (and concurrently High Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory) between 1980 and September 1985. During the Argentine invasion of the ...
Nov 12, 2012 · Sir Rex Hunt, who has died aged 86, was governor and commander-in-chief of the Falkland Islands at the time of the Argentinian invasion on 2 April 1982.
Nov 18, 2012 · In 1982, Sir Rex found himself, literally overnight, directing a tiny band of British military men against an amphibious Argentine invasion.
Because Sir Rex Hunt wrote his own biography it is unduly modest, particularly where his resolute conduct during the Argentine invasion in April 1982 is concerned. A fuller account of his life, by the Editor of the Dictionary of Falklands Biography , can be found on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (oxforddnb.com ...
Nov 12, 2012 · British diplomat Sir Rex Hunt, who was governor of the Falkland Islands at the time of the Argentine invasion in 1982, died Nov. 11 at the age of 86.
After a stint in the Middle Eastern Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office he went back east, and as Counsellor at Saigon in 1975 was the last diplomat to leave the British Embassy as...
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Jun 5, 2020 · Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, was a British Government diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice Admiral of the Falkland Islands between 1980 and September 1985.