Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton arrives on 6th December to succeed Vice Admiral Sir Adrian Johns as Governor and Commander in Chief of Gibraltar
Who is Our New Governor? Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton KCB, CBE
Sir James spent 37 years in the Royal Marines, ending his military career as Deputy Commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. He followed this with a highly successful career in commerce with Bechtel where his last position was Director General of Agence Nationale des Grands Travaux (ANGT) in Libreville, Gabon. Probably he is the only Governor to have moved on from a full military career to a senior position in business. Sir James, known universally as Jim, would be happy to answer to Sir Jim or Sir James!
interview | Mike Brufal
his wife, Elizabeth (nee Waddell) who was on the same course. They have a daughter, Sally, (married with a 9 month old son) and a son, James, a Captain in the Royal Marines, who has just returned from a tour in Afghanistan. Although his family had no connections with the military outside wartime service, Jim decided from an early age that he wished to pursue a military career. A notable coincidence is that Rob Fulton (Governor of Gibraltar 2006 - 2009) was in the same 1972 intake as Jim: he was a few years older having already gained a degree and pursued civilian employment. Jim had a standard early career and following university he trained as a signals (communications) officer. Every battalion has such an officer whose job is to ensure all communications work within the unit and to higher James Dutton, 59, was educated at the King’s HQs. It was in that role in 40 Commando that School, Chester and then as a Royal Marine of- he deployed to the Falklands Islands in 1982: ficer went up to City University, London where 40 Commando saw little direct action as a unit, he read for a Bachelor of Science degree in being kept to defend the San Carlos area to Systems and Management. It was there he met deter any Argentine assault on the rear.
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GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 2013