Hunt, who has died aged 86, remembered for his defiance against Argentine forces during the 1982 conflict Rex Hunt, fully dressed in his governor's tights and ostrich plumes, was widely seen, not least by toffs in the Foreign Office (FCO), as a slightly Wodehousian figure, the kind more likely to be seen in slacks propping up the golf club bar in a colonial outpost. If it was not for the 1982 ...

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Tributes to 'hero' former Falkland Islands governor Sir Rex Hunt