Timothy Daunt | |
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26th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man | |
In office 27 October 1995 –1 September 2000 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Sir Laurence Jones |
Succeeded by | Sir Ian Macfadyen |
Personal details | |
Born | Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt 11 October 1935 |
Died | 5 August 2023 87) London,England [1] | (aged
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Patricia Susan Knight |
Children | James Daunt |
Relatives | Achilles Daunt (great grandfather) |
Alma mater | St Catharine's College,Cambridge |
Military service | |
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Years of service | 1955–1957 |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Viceregal styles of Sir Timothy Daunt (1995–2000) | |
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Reference style | His Excellency |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Sir Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt KCMG (11 October 1935 –5 August 2023) was a British diplomat and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.
Daunt was educated at Sherborne School and St Catharine's College,Cambridge. [2]
Daunt was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1955 [3] and posted to the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. After completing national service,he joined the diplomatic service and,after a series of postings,became Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels in 1982 [4] and then British Ambassador to Turkey from 1986 to his retirement in 1992. [5]
In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. [6] He later became chairman of the Ottoman Fund,a business established to provide mortgages for properties in Turkey. [7]
In 1962 he married Patricia Susan Knight (1938-2023),second daughter of Major Claude Thorburn Knight (1910-1993) by his wife Priscilla (1914-1995),only daughter of John William Dodson,2nd Baron Monk Bretton. [8] [9] Lady Daunt grew up mostly on a farm in East Sussex,just north of Lewes,and was educated at Langford Grove School,Barcombe and Southover Manor School,Lewes. [10] Both Daunts were involved with The Friends of Aphrodisias Trust. Lady Daunt's inclinations towards Asia Minor seem to have been further boosted by her having been a five-times great-niece of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,not that she knew of the connection. Similarly,through her organisational and social flare and general energy Lady Daunt showed signs of being a throw back to her ancestor Georgiana,Duchess of Devonshire. [11] In October 2017 a selection of Lady Daunt's 25 years' worth of essays written for Cornucopia Magazine was published as The Palace Lady's Summerhouse and other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey. [12]
Daunt died of the effects of cerebral vasculitis on 5 August 2023,at the age of 87. [13] [14] Lady Daunt died on 2 October 2023,at the age of 84. [15]
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