Peter Stallard

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| name = Sir Peter Stallard

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| order = 21st

| office = Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man

| term_start = 1966

| term_end = 1974

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| monarch = Elizabeth II

| predecessor = Sir Ronald Garvey

| successor = Sir John Paul

| birth_date = 6 March 1915

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| death_date = {{d-da|25 October 1995|6 March 1915}}

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| birthname = Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard

| nationality = British

| spouse = Mary Elizabeth Kirke

| children = One son and one daughter

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| alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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| branch = 23px British Army

| serviceyears = 1939-1945

| rank = Lieutenant-Colonel

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Sir Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CVO|MBE}} (6 March 1915 – 25 October 1995) was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1967 to 1972.

Career

Educated at Bromsgrove School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1995-6/weekly/231195/coll.htm |title=Oxford Gazette, 1995/6. |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415203329/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1995-6/weekly/231195/coll.htm |archive-date=15 April 2012 |url-status=dead }} Stallard joined the colonial service in Nigeria in 1937.Debrett's People of Today, 1994. He served in West Africa and Burma during World War II being given an emergency commission in 1941 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel by the end of the War.{{London Gazette|issue=35294|supp=y|page=5713|date=30 September 1941}} He later re-joined the colonial service, becoming Secretary to the Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria in 1957 in the run-up to independence{{London Gazette|issue=42051|supp=y|page=3976|date=11 June 1960}} before moving on to be Governor of British Honduras in 1961, where he arrived in the aftermath of serious hurricane damage.{{Cite web |title=Hurricane Damage (Hansard, 7 December 1961) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1961/dec/07/hurricane-damage |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=api.parliament.uk}} He retired in 1966.{{Cite ODNB |title=Belize, colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in (1862–2000) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-93229 |access-date=2024-09-30 | date=2005 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/93229 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |language=en}}

In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man:[http://www.worldleadersindex.org/Europe/IsleofMan.html World Leaders Index] in August 1973 the Summerland disaster took place.[http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/documents/DraftPapers/Phillips_SFD5.pdf The Island's Aftermath of Bitterness.] and he had to contend with calls for independence from Manx people.{{Cite web |date=2009-01-25 |title=BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} ISLE OF MAN (1966) |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/474640?view=synopsis |access-date=2024-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125100422/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/474640?view=synopsis |archive-date=25 January 2009 }} He later chaired an inquiry into military training on Dartmoor.[http://yourdemocracy.newstatesman.com/parliament/defence/HAN7884425 Commons Written Answers to Questions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917092450/http://yourdemocracy.newstatesman.com/parliament/defence/HAN7884425 |date=2011-09-17 }}, Hansard, 17 July 1978.