Robert Edmund Alford
British colonial administrator
About Robert Edmund Alford
Lived 1904 – 1979 (aged 74–75).
Sir Robert Edmund Alford, KBE, CMG (10 September 1904 – 23 November 1979) was a British colonial administrator. He was Governor of St Helena from 1958 to 1962.
Educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford, Alford joined the Colonial Service and served successively in Nigeria, Zanzibar, and St Helena. He was appointed CMG in 1951 and KBE in 1960.
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Who was Robert Edmund Alford?
British colonial administrator
When was Robert Edmund Alford born?
Robert Edmund Alford was born in 1904.
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Robert Edmund Alford died in 1979.
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