MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Thanks to Rex Hunt for fund-raising lectures.
The chairman and principal founder of the Shackleton Scholarship Fund (SSF), Mr David Tatham, has privately thanked another former Governor of the Falkland Islands, Sir Rex Hunt, for his efforts in raising money for the fund.
Sir Rex, also a founding member of the fund and former chairman of its London committee and now the fund's treasurer, has donated more than three-thousand pounds to the fund, raised from fees for many lectures he has given in the United Kingdom about the Falkland Islands and his historic stint as Governor coinciding with the 1982 Argentine invasion. He is in much demand as a speaker to a variety of business, military and other organisations. He also lectures aboard cruise ships.
Since his retirement he has remained active as an outspoken champion of the Islanders and their right to self-determination, as Chairman of the Falkland Islands Association, and as a member of the South Atlantic Medal Association and of several other organisations with links to the Falklands.
The Shackleton Fund-- founded six years ago to commemorate the lives of the Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. and his son, Lord Shackleton, whose reports boosted Falklands economic development -- has awarded more than 50 scholarships to academics and others for their ability to enhance the quality of life in the Falkland Islands.
Harold Briley, (MP)London
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