Lt-General Andrew Ridgway CBE (55), the Colonel Commandant of the Second Royal Tank Regiment, is expected in the Island in April.
He has had a long and distinguished military career including spells in Northern Ireland, Germany, Kosovo and Kuwait.
Lt-Gen Ridgway, whose appointment was made public late this morning, and his wife Valerie have four children, and Who’s Who lists his recreations as skiing, fishing, walking and paying school fees.
Lt-Gen Ridgway was educated at Cambridge and Sandhurst, and is the honorary colonel of Cambridge University officer training corps.
He began his military career as a tank commander and helicopter pilot, and will replace the current Lieut-Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Cheshire, when his term of office expires next April.
