Anthony Trickett

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Anthony Robert Trickett MBE DL (1940 – 17 May 2013) was a Scottish doctor and Lord Lieutenant of Orkney.[1]

Trickett practised in several hospitals in Manchester between 1964 and 1966, then demonstrating Anatomy at University of Manchester between 1966 and 1967. From 1967 to 1973, he was a General Practitioner at Pembroke in Dyfed and from 1973 to 2000 in . From 1973, he was Honorary Medical Advisor of and became its Honorary Secretary in 1995. From 2000 he was chairman of the . Trickett was a . He was a member of the Medical and Survival Committee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and received the Institution's Silver Badge in 1994 and the Gold Badge in 2004.

Trickett was a trustee of the from 1984, becoming its chairman in 1992. From 2003, he was trustee of the in Kirkwall. Between 2000 and 2006, he was director of . He was a director of the in Hoy and chairman of the , which he had founded with John Eccles. Having been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1998, Trickett was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Orkney in 1999. In 2005, he was made Vice Lord Lieutenant and on 27 February 2007 he became Lord Lieutenant.

Trickett leaves a widow.

References[]

  1. ^ "Tony Trickett". The Herald. Glasgow. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Lord Lieutenant of Orkney
2007–2013
Succeeded by
James William Spence


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