Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet

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Air Vice Marshal Sir Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet KBE CB DSO (28 August 1891 - 16 November 1983) was a Air Marshal during World War II and a former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

He attended the Britannia Naval College in Dartmouth before serving as a Flight Commander in the First World War and was commended for his service in Gallipoli. In 1919 he was commissioned permanently as a Major. He then gradually rose up the rank to Air Vice Marshal and held various posts including being the Air Officer Commanding 19 and 247 Groups during 1941-1945. In 1945 he retired at his own request.

His second marriage was to Commandant Dame Jean Conan Doyle, daughter of Arthur Conan Doyle.

In 1945 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man and served until 1952.

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Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the Isle of Man
Christian, Stanley N, Stanley C, Mawdesley, Stanley C, Horne, Lloyd, Horton, 2nd Duke of Atholl, Lindsey, Cochrane, Wood, 4th Duke of Atholl, Hope, Dawson, Shaw, Murray, Smelt, Ready, Hope, Connat-Pigott, Loch, Walpole, Ridgeway, Henniker-Major, Somerset, Fry, Hill, Butler, Granville, Bromet, Dundas, Garvey, Stallard, Paul, Cecil, New, Jones, Daunt, MacFadyen, Haddacks