Orville Turnquest

Orville Turnquest

Sir Orville Alton Turnquest, GCMG, QC (born July 19, 1929) was the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Bahamas from 1992 to 1994, and the governor-general of the Bahamas from January 3 1995 until his retirement on November 13 2001. He was knighted in 1995.

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