His Excellency Howard John Stredder Pearce, CVO (born April 13, 1949 in Twickenham) is the Governor of the Falkland Islands and the Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI). He assumed both positions on December 3, 2002. Before his appointment, Pearce was High Commissioner to Malta from 1999 to 2002. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1972. Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Twickenham is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in the south-west of London It is best known as the home of Twickenham Stadium - the headquarters of the Rugby Football Union. ... Orthographic projection centred on the South Sandwich Islands South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province (because of that, some of the islands also have Spanish names). ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A High Commissioner is a person serving in a special executive capacity. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Pearce married Caroline Thomée, a Dutch architect and photographer in October 2004. He is the first Governor to marry in the Falkland Islands. On the day of the wedding, local schoolchildren were given the day off. A bell was also rung at a church in Grytviken on South Georgia. 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Grytviken as it was before 1929 Grytviken (Norwegian: Pot Bay, after the pots used to render seal oil) is the only settlement in the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. ...

On July 27, 2005, it was announced that Pearce will soon be leaving the Falklands in order to take a different job within the FCO. In Spring 2006 he will be succeeded as Falkland Islands Governor and SGSSI Commissioner by Alan Huckle, the current governor of Anguilla, another British overseas territory in the Caribbean. July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Edden Huckle (born June 15, 1948) is a British colonial administrator. ... Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean Sea is a tropical body of water adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. ...

External links and sources

• SARTMA: Breezy Wedding for Falklands Governor
• South Georgia Newsletter, October 2004
• First Governor to wed in the Falkland Islands
• FCO: Change of Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• The World Factbook - Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)