Robert Sidney Foster
Sir Robert Sidney Foster GCMG KCVO (11 August 1913 – 12 October 2005) was a British colonial administrator, best remembered as the last colonial Governor of Fiji and the first Governor-General of the Dominion of Fiji.
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