ELEMENTS within the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office were anxious to seize on the 1973 assassination of Governor Sir Richard Sharples as a pretext to set the stage for Bermudian Independence, ...
EDWIN Leather was not the British Government's first choice to succeed the murdered Sir Richard Sharples as Bermuda's Governor. Nor was he the second or third choice. In fact, Sir Edwin's name was ...
10 March 1973: Governor of Bermuda Sir Richard Sharples is assassinated. He and his assistant, Captain Hugh Sayers, are shot dead in the grounds of the governor's residence in Hamilton - the ...