Ronald Garvey became involved in breaking the 1926 general strike, and did not find time to study for this examination, and instead applied for a position in the Colonial Service.
13 Facts About Ronald Garvey
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Ronald Garvey accepted a position in the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and sailed from Southampton to Fiji in November 1926.
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Ronald Garvey spent six years in the Solomons, most of them as a district officer for the Santa Cruz Group, on Vanikoro, more than 500 miles away from the colony's headquarters at Tulagi.
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Ronald Garvey returned to his former position in Suva, but was sent to Tonga in late August 1939 to persuade Queen Salote to declare war on Nazi Germany if war was to break out in Europe.
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Ronald Garvey assisted the French Commissioner Henri Sautot in his quick and bloodless overthrowing of Vichy power in New Caledonia.
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Ronald Garvey found it hard to adjust to this African setting after 16 years in the Pacific, but was offered the position of Administrator of Saint Vincent, in the West Indies.
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The Garvey family left Nyasaland for England in February 1944, Ronald sailing for St Vincent in September.
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Ronald Garvey started work as Administrator of Saint Vincent in 1944.
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Ronald Garvey moved on to be Governor of British Honduras in 1949; there he had to contend with a general strike and the need to devalue the local currency.
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Ronald Garvey launched one of the first credit unions in British Honduras to protect poorer people from loan sharks.
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Ronald Garvey then served as Governor of Fiji from 1952, where he demonstrated his considerable public relations skills, until his retirement in 1958.
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Ronald Garvey sent the Home Office a Manx cat to replace the one they had lost.
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Ronald Garvey subsequently wrote a memoir entitled Gentleman Pauper published in 1984.