Richard Gozney


Sir Richard Hugh Turton Gozney is a British career diplomat and, since 27 May 2016, the lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man. He was governor and commander in chief of Bermuda from 12 December 2007 to 18 May 2012.

Career

Educated at Magdalen College School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Gozney joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1973. He became Head of Chancery and Political Section in Madrid in 1984, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in 1989 and British High Commissioner to Swaziland in 1993. After that he became Head of the Security Policy Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1996, Chief of the Assessments Staff at the Cabinet Office in 1998 and British Ambassador to Indonesia in 2000. He then became British High Commissioner to Nigeria in 2004, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda in 2007 and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in 2016.

Family

He married Diana Edwina Baird on 24 April 1982 and has two sons.

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