Gordon Geoffrey Wetherell, CMG

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 (born 11 November 1948) is a British diplomat who was the former Governor

Governor

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 of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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. He was appointed on 5 August 2008, replacing Richard Tauwhare

Richard Tauwhare

Richard Tauwhare was the tenth Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands, serving from 11 July 2005 to 16 July 2008. He succeeded Governor Jim Poston....

 in the position. On 14 August 2009, he assumed direct political control when the British government imposed direct rule

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 on the islands in response to a Foreign Office inquiry which found "information in abundance pointing to a high probability of systematic corruption or serious dishonesty" in the islands' administration under former Premier

Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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, Michael Misick

Michael Misick

Michael Eugene Misick was the chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 15 August 2003 to 9 August 2006 and was the first Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 9 August 2006 to 23 March 2009....

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He was educated at Bradfield College

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 (in Bradfield, Berkshire

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), at New College, Oxford

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 and at the University of Chicago

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. His Foreign Office career has included service in East Berlin

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, Geneva

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, New Delhi

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, and Warsaw

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. From 1997 to 2000 he was the British ambassador to Ethiopia. He served as ambassador to Luxembourg from 2000 to 2004, and High Commissioner to Ghana from 2004 to 2007.

He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2011 Birthday Honours

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Governor Wetherell's last official meeting in office was with the Advisory Council on 11 August 2011, in Grand Turk

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. Wetherell departed the Providenciales

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, Turks and Caicos, on Sunday, 21 August 2011, ending his term as governor.