13 Facts About Hugh Binney

Hugh Binney was determined to pursue a career with the Royal Navy from an early age, and he joined the training vessel HMS Britannia at Dartmouth at the age of 13.

Hugh Binney had been promoted to the rank of Commander by 1916, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1919.

Hugh Binney was made Captain whilst on the China Station in 1922.

Hugh Binney became deputy director of plans at the Admiralty in 1925.

Hugh Binney became Flag Officer, Orkneys and Shetlands in December 1939 and was promoted to admiral in 1942.

Hugh Binney then served as flag officer-in-charge, in Cardiff before retiring from the navy in 1944.

Hugh Binney excelled at the post, and was a popular governor.

Hugh Binney oversaw the Robert Cosgrove government forced to call an early election in 1948 due to the Legislative Council rejecting the supply bill.

Hugh Binney was a member of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, and won the Derwent Sailing Pennant in 1951.

Hugh Binney retired as governor on 8 May 1951 and immediately returned to England.

Hugh Binney was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1935, and was elevated to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1940.

Hugh Binney married Elizabeth Bride Blair-Imrie, a granddaughter of Brigadier General Eyre Macdonell Stewart Crabbe, at the parish church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 31 October 1942, but they were never to have children.

Sir Hugh Binney was elevated to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1951, and following surgery for cholecystitis, he died of pulmonary embolism on 8 January 1953.