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Richard Sharples was born on 6 August, 1916 in England, is a British politician and Governor of Bermuda. Discover Richard Sharples's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 6 August 1916
Birthday 6 August
Birthplace England
Date of death 1973
Died Place Hamilton, Bermuda
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1916

Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, (6 August 1916 – 10 March 1973) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda who was shot dead by assassins linked to a small militant Bermudian Black Power group called the Black Beret Cadre.

1923

The 23 Parachute Field Ambulance, 1 Parachute Logistic Regiment and the band of the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment subsequently provided protection for government buildings, officials and dignitaries as well as assisting the Bermuda Police.

Police launched a massive manhunt and investigation.

Seven months later an armed man named Erskine Durrant "Buck" Burrows was arrested.

He confessed to shooting dead Sharples and Sayers.

1936

Sharples passed out from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1936 and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards.

During the Second World War he served in France and Italy.

1946

He married Pamela Newall in 1946; they had two sons and two daughters.

The family greatly enjoyed yachting, and this was the basis of a close friendship with Edward Heath, later prime minister.

1953

He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and left the army in 1953.

1954

Sharples was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam in a 1954 byelection.

1970

After the 1970 general election, he served as Minister of State at the Home Office, before resigning his seat in 1972 to take up the position of Governor of Bermuda.

1972

The former army major, who had been a Cabinet Minister, resigned his seat to take up the position of Governor of Bermuda in late 1972.

His murder resulted in the last executions conducted under British rule.

At his trial he was also convicted of murdering the Bermuda Police commissioner George Duckett on 9 September 1972 and killing the co-owner and the bookkeeper of a supermarket in April 1973.

He was sentenced to death.

In his confession Burrows wrote:

"The motive for killing the Governor was to seek to make the people, black people in particular, become aware of the evilness and wickedness of the colonialist system in this island. Secondly, the motive was to show that these colonialists were just ordinary people like ourselves who eat, sleep and die just like anybody else and that we need not stand in fear and awe of them."

1973

He was assassinated in 1973 by a faction associating itself with the Black Power movement.

His widow was subsequently made a life peer as Baroness Sharples.

Sharples was killed outside Bermuda's Government House on 10 March 1973.

An informal dinner party for a small group of guests had just concluded, when he decided to go for a walk with his Great Dane, Horsa, and his aide-de-camp, Captain Hugh Sayers of the Welsh Guards.

The two men and dog were ambushed and gunned down outside the Governor's residence.

The Governor's coffin was borne by officers of the Bermuda Regiment, and Sayers' by a party from the Welsh Guards.

The coffins were carried atop 25-pounder field guns of the Bermuda Regiment, to the Leander-class frigate HMS Sirius (F40), which was stationed at HM Dockyard Bermuda at the time.

The ship's Royal Marines detachment provided an honour guard on the flight deck.

HMS Sirius conveyed the bodies from Hamilton to St. George's, where they were interred at St. Peter's Church.

After the assassination HMS Sirius provided enhanced security for Commodore Cameron Rusby, the Senior Naval Officer West Indies (SNOWI) who was stationed on the island.

A detachment of Royal Marines (subsequently replaced by soldiers from the Parachute Regiment) was posted to the Dockyard to guard SNOWI.

Sharples was buried in the graveyard at St Peter's Church in St George's on 16 March 1973, six days after his assassination, with Captain Sayers and Great Dane, Horsa.

Elements of the British Army's airborne forces, which were training at Warwick Camp with the Bermuda Regiment at the time of the murders, were called in to assist the civil authorities.

A co-accused named Larry Tacklyn was acquitted of assassinating Sharples and Sayers but was convicted of killing Victor Rego and Mark Doe at the Shopping Centre supermarket in April 1973.

Unlike Burrows, who did not care whether he was to be executed, Tacklyn expected to get a "last minute" reprieve.

Both murderers remained in Casemates Prison while the appeals process for Tacklyn was brought before the Privy Council in London.

During this time, it was reported that Tacklyn passed the time playing table tennis, while Burrows took a virtual vow of silence, only communicating his thoughts and requests on scraps of paper.

1977

Both men were hanged on 2 December 1977 at Casemates Prison.

A moratorium on hanging was then in effect, and, although others had been sentenced to death in the intervening years, no one had been executed in Bermuda since the Second World War.

Burrows and Tacklyn would be the last people to be executed under British rule anywhere in the world.

Three days of rioting followed the executions.

During the riots, the Bermuda Regiment proved too small to fulfil its role (which was considered by Major General Glyn Gilbert, the highest ranking Bermudian in the British Army, in his review of the regiment, leading to its increase from 400 soldiers to a full battalion of 750).