Richard Gozney

Sir Richard Hugh Turton Gozney (born 21 July 1951) is a British career diplomat who served as governor and commander in chief of Bermuda from 2007 to 2012, and as the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 2016 to 2021.

Early life and education Richard Hugh Turton Gozney

Career Gozney 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. In 1996, 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 was British High Commissioner to Nigeria. The Order of St Michael and St George was awarded to him in 2006.

Gozney succeeded John Vereker as Governor of Bermuda on 12 December 2007, and served until 2012. On 27 May 2016, Gozney was sworn in as the 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, succeeding Adam Wood. He served until John Lorimer replaced him on 29 September 2021.

Jeremy Storey was appointed as the island's first full-time Judge of Appeal in 2017. On 16 March 2020, Gozney declared the first state of emergency in the Isle of Man since World War II in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of emergency was lifted on 26 June. His term was scheduled to end in April 2021, but the pandemic resulted in it being extended by six months. In 2022, he was selected to be a member of a £500,000 inquiry into Jersey's management of the pandemic.

Publication Gibraltar and the EC: Aspects of the Relationship (Royal Institute of International Affairs Discussion Paper, 1993)