{{Short description|British diplomat (born 1951)}} {{Use British English|date=June 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir Richard Gozney | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|CVO|KStJ}} | image = | monarch1 = Elizabeth II | office1 = 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man | premier1 = Howard Quayle | predecessor1 = Adam Wood | successor1 = Sir John Lorimer | term_start1 = 27 May 2016 | term_end1 = 29 September 2021 | monarch2 = Elizabeth II | office2 = Governor of Bermuda | premier2 = Brown, Cox | predecessor2 = John Vereker | successor2 = David Arkley <small>(Acting)</small> | term_start2 = 12 December 2007 | term_end2 = 18 May 2012 | birth_name = Richard Hugh Turton Gozney | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|7|21|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{marriage|Diana Edwina Baird|1982}} | children = 2 | education = St Edmund Hall, Oxford }} {{Infobox viceroy styles | image = 260px | name = Sir Richard Gozney<br>(2016–2021) | dipstyle = His Excellency | offstyle = Your Excellency }} '''Sir Richard Hugh Turton Gozney''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|CVO|KStJ}} (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<ref name=WW/> graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in geology.{{sfn|O'Kelly-Lynch|2007}} 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.<ref name=WW>''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; {{ISBN|978-1-4081-1414-8}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=WW/> He was British High Commissioner to Nigeria.{{sfn|BBC|2016}} The Order of St Michael and St George was awarded to him in 2006.{{sfn|Smith|2007}}
Gozney succeeded John Vereker as Governor of Bermuda on 12 December 2007, and served until 2012.{{sfn|Johnson|2011}} On 27 May 2016, Gozney was sworn in as the 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, succeeding Adam Wood.{{sfn|BBC|2016}} He served until John Lorimer replaced him on 29 September 2021.{{sfn|BBC|2021}}
Jeremy Storey was appointed as the island's first full-time Judge of Appeal in 2017.{{sfn|BBC|2017}} On 16 March 2020, Gozney declared the first state of emergency in the Isle of Man since World War II in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of emergency was lifted on 26 June. His term was scheduled to end in April 2021, but the pandemic resulted in it being extended by six months.{{sfn|BBC|2020}}{{sfn|BBC|2021}} In 2022, he was selected to be a member of a £500,000 inquiry into Jersey's management of the pandemic.{{sfn|Bailiwick Express|2022}}
==Publication== *''Gibraltar and the EC: Aspects of the Relationship'' (Royal Institute of International Affairs Discussion Paper, 1993)
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* {{Cite news |date=26 June 2020 |title=Coronavirus: Isle of Man state of emergency ends |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-53198020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618131714/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-53198020 |archive-date=18 June 2025 |ref={{harvid|BBC|2020}}}} * {{Cite news |date=28 August 2021 |title=Departing Lieutenant Governor praises 'island's quiet self-confidence' |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-58359780 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618131328/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-58359780 |archive-date=18 June 2025 |ref={{harvid|BBC|2021}}}} * {{Cite news |date=28 March 2022 |title=Former Isle of Man Lieutenant Governor joins Jersey covid inquiry |work=Bailiwick Express |url=https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news/former-isle-man-lieutenant-governor-joins-jersey-covid-inquiry/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618131900/https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news/former-isle-man-lieutenant-governor-joins-jersey-covid-inquiry/ |archive-date=18 June 2025 |ref={{harvid|Bailiwick Express|2022}}}} * {{Cite news |date=9 October 2017 |title=Isle of Man's first full-time appeal judge sworn in |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-41553036 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618132545/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-41553036 |archive-date=18 June 2025 |ref={{harvid|BBC|2017}}}} * {{Cite news |date=27 May 2016 |title=Sir Richard Gozney: Island's 30th Lieutenant Governor sworn in |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-35754483 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618131022/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-35754483 |archive-date=18 June 2025 |ref={{harvid|BBC|2016}}}} * {{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Ayo |date=23 December 2011 |title=Governor to leave early next year |work=The Royal Gazette |url=https://www.royalgazette.com/other/news/article/20111223/governor-to-leave-early-next-year/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618133810/https://www.royalgazette.com/other/news/article/20111223/governor-to-leave-early-next-year/ |archive-date=18 June 2025}} * {{Cite news |last=O'Kelly-Lynch |first=Ruth |date=12 December 2007 |title=New Governor arrives |work=The Royal Gazette |url=https://www.royalgazette.com/other/news/article/20110205/new-governor-arrives/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618134116/https://www.royalgazette.com/other/news/article/20110205/new-governor-arrives/ |archive-date=18 June 2025}} * {{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Tim |date=13 December 2007 |title=New Governor sworn in |work=The Royal Gazette |url=https://www.royalgazette.com/other/news/article/20110205/new-governor-sworn-in/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618133259/https://www.royalgazette.com/other/news/article/20110205/new-governor-sworn-in/ |archive-date=18 June 2025}}
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