Bruce Greatbatch
Sir Bruce Greatbatch, was the British colonial Governor of the Seychelles from 1969 to 1973.Biography
Greatbatch was educated at Malvern College and Brasenose College, Oxford.
Greatbatch oversaw the forced deporation and exile of the Chagossians between 1968 and 1973. He and his subordinate, John Rawling Todd, were accused of ordering gassing of the islanders' pet dog population of 1,000, to be killed as a means of intimidating the indigenous people before deportation. He called the Chagossians "unsophisticated" and "untrainable". The deportation was carried out in order to construct a joint US/UK military installation on Diego Garcia.
