About 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 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in geology. and was educated at Magdalen College School. Gozney joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1973. He married Diana Edwina Baird in 1982, and has two sons. == 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.
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