Preceded by John Hilary Smith Name Reginald Wallace | Died December 10, 2012 | |
Succeeded by Office abolished
Kiribati independence | ||
Reginald James Wallace CMG OBE (c. 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a British civil servant. Wallace served as the last colonial Governor of the Gilbert Islands from 1978 to 12 July 1979. The Gilbert Islands, which separated from the neighboring Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) in 1975, became the independent nation of Kiribati on 12 July 1979.
Wallace died on 10 December 2012 at the age of 93. He had been a resident of Gardiner's View, Gibraltar.
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