DINWIDDY, Bruce Harry CMG 1946-2021

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 8 April 2021: DINWIDDY Bruce Harry CMG, peacefully on 1st April. Greatly loved husband of Emma, father of Celia and Thomas and grandfather of Nina, Libby, Sophie and Hugh. Private cremation. Thanksgiving service to be announced. Donations if desired to Princess Alice Hospice, Esher

He was s of Thomas Lutwyche DINWIDDY 1905-92 by his 1935 m reg Q2 Cheshire to Ruth ABBOTT 1910-96. He m 1974 Emma Victoria d of Sir David Treharne LLEWELLYN Kt 1916-92 (s of Sir David Richard LLEWELLYN 1st Bt 1879-1940) and Joan Anne WILLIAMS OBE 1916-2013, and had a son and a dau as above.

[Richard R]

From the Times of 31 Aug 2021: Service of Thanksgiving: DINWIDDY Bruce, CMG, a Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington Church Street, London... at 3pm on 3rd September 2021. All welcome.

[colinp]

Obit in Daily Telegraph 29 September 2021 -  Bruce Dinwiddy, Governor of the Cayman Islands who co-ordinated aid and rescue after Hurricane Ivan struck – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

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Bruce Dinwiddy, Governor of the Cayman Islands who co-ordinated aid and rescue after Hurricane Ivan struck – obituary

Eighty per cent of buildings on Grand Cayman were damaged and overcoming the disaster was the crowning achievement in Dinwiddy’s career

Bruce Harry Dinwiddy was born in Epsom on February 1 1946, and educated at Winchester, where he emulated his two elder brothers in becoming Senior Commoner Prefect – the first time in the school’s history that a fraternal trio had achieved this distinction.

Along with his sound academic performance, Bruce carried off the Queen’s Medal for English Speech, and was captain of both squash and golf.

In 1963 his father Tom Dinwiddy, a Master of the Supreme Court, wrote to the Tutor for Admissions at New College, Oxford, of which he himself was an alumnus, to give notice that Bruce would be following his two brothers in coming up the next year, to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

New College returned, somewhat unsportingly, that the boy would be required to take an entrance exam. Such trials, however, never troubled Bruce. At Oxford he was able to combine a respectable Second Class degree with captaincy of the university’s golf team.....

He was appointed CMG in 2003.

He married, in 1974, Emma Llewellyn, whose father, Sir David Llewellyn, served under Winston Churchill in 1951-52 as Under-Secretary of State in the Home Department.

Bruce and Emma Dinwiddy had a daughter and a son.

Bruce Dinwiddy, born February 1 1946, died April 1 2021