Ebenezer Le Page author GB Edwards dies |
29th December |
Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin died |
27th November |
Horticultural painter William Caparne was born |
17th November |
Dad’s Army actor John le Mesurier died |
15th November |
Jethou’s tenant fell off his own cliff |
14th November |
Bailiff Sir Peter de Havilland was born |
27th October |
Dame Sibyl Hathaway chose her Desert Island Discs |
25th October |
Footballer Matt Le Tissier was born |
14th October |
Major General Sir Isaac Brock died |
13th October |
Herm tenant Major Peter Wood died |
29th September |
Occupation president Ambrose Sherwill died |
25th September |
Guernsey commando Hubert Nicolle died |
19th September |
Missing girl, Jetta, was found on Guernsey |
16th September |
The title Baron de Saumarez was created |
15th September |
The melon king died… long live the melon king |
6th September |
Ship sinks in St Sampson harbour |
5th September |
Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint |
4th September |
Oliver Reed was jailed in Guernsey |
27th August |
Charlie Chaplin played in St Peter Port |
16th August |
Guernsey steam tramway is granted its concession |
13th August |
Guernesiais linguist Marie de Garis died |
10th August |
The Star received some “grave” news |
17th July |
Birth of Sark-based writer Mervyn Peake |
9th July |
Guernsey coffee trader William Le Lacheur died |
27th June |
Princess Elizabeth opened Guernsey’s hospital |
23rd June |
Guernsey celebrated Queen Victoria’s jubilee |
22nd June |
Aurigny founder Derrick Bailey died |
19th June |
Pollet guest house fire claimed its third victim |
18th June |
Victor Hugo’s house is opened to the public |
14th June |
Dame Sibyl became a dame again |
12th June |
The king and queen celebrated Guernsey’s liberation |
7th June |
Bailiff John Guille died in Plymouth |
3rd June |
Cricketer Charles Grieve died in Shropshire |
1st June |
Guernsey woman advised to leave for her safety |
29th May |
Game of Thrones actor Roy Dotrice was born |
26th May |
John Doyle was appointed Lieutenant-Governor |
23rd May |
Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet was born |
22nd May |
Wartime diplomat Wilfred Gallienne born in Guernsey |
20th May |
British papers reported Dame of Sark’s deportation |
14th May |
A Guernsey retiree’s £1m offer attracts 57,000 requests |
10th May |
Role of Chief Minister of Guernsey abolished |
4th May |
“Twink” goes missing on its way to Guernsey |
3rd May |
Guernsey deportee, nurse Gladys Skillett was born |
2nd May |
Priaulx Library opens for the first time |
1st May |
Guernsey bigamist got married for the second time |
22nd April |
Three Jewish women are deported from Guernsey |
21st April |
TV’s Jeeves is rushed to hospital on Guernsey |
18th April |
Death of the Vicar General of the Channel Islands |
17th April |
Lieutenant Governor, Lord Ruthven, died in Bath |
16th April |
Guernsey Mormon Sampson Avard dies in Illinois |
15th April |
Antiquarian William Collings Lukis was born |
8th April |
Guernsey’s oldest resident dies, aged 110 |
4th April |
Famed printer Thomas de la Rue born |
24th March |
Guernsey guidebook pioneer Henry Inglis dies |
20th March |
Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard |
16th February |
Specsavers’ Mary Perkins was born |
14th February |
Queen Mary executed while wearing Guernsey stockings |
8th February |
Birth of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann |
2nd February |
Guernsey poet George Métivier is born |
29th January |
Guernsey’s last witch trial takes place |
28th January |
Benefactor Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx dies |
15th January |
Sibyl Hathaway, Dame of Sark, is born |
13th January |