Hilda Bynoe
Dame Hilda Bynoe | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Grenada | |
| In office June 1968 – 21 January 1974 | |
| Monarch | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Premier | Eric Gairy |
| Preceded by | Ian Turbott |
| Succeeded by | Sir Leo de Gale |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hilda Louisa Gibbs 18 November 1921 |
| Died | 6 April 2013 (aged 91) |
| Spouse | Peter Cecil Alexander Bynoe |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | teacher, doctor |
Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe, DBE (née Gibbs; 18 November 1921 – 6 April 2013) was the Governor of Grenada between 1968 and 1974.
A doctor and hospital administrator, Bynoe was, so far, the only woman to have been a governor of one of the British Dependencies, Hilda Bynoe was the first woman Governor of a Commonwealth of Nations country, becoming Governor of Grenada, Cariacou and Petit Martinique. She spent most of her adult life as a teacher and doctor of medicine in Trinidad and Tobago.