Sir cosmo haskard biography of christopher

Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1964 – 1970, Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard, KCMG, MBE, passed away peacefully at his home in Tregariff, County Cork, Ireland, on February 21, aged 100.

Sir Cosmo was born in Dublin in November 1916 – only a few months after the Easter Rising.  His father, John McDougal Haskard, was an officer in the British Army, and a landowner in County Cork.  The young Cosmo was educated at Cheltenham, and then went on to Sandhurst, where he passed out second.  But ill health prevented an immediate military career, and so he went up to Cambridge in 1937.  There he read modern languages, joined the University Officer Training Corps and, as war with Germany approached, was commissioned into the Territorial Army.

Following the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers, but in 1940 he transferred to the Colonial Service and was posted to the King’s African Rifles in