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Richard Taylor Fell CVO (b. 11 November 1948 ) is the British High Commissioner to New Zealand and the Colonial Governor of the Pitcairn , Henderson , Ducie and Oeno Islands (of which only Pitcairn is inhabited). He joined the Foreign And Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1971 , after completing an MA in Area Studies ( 1971 ) at the Institute Of Commonwealth Studies , University Of London , serving in the South Asian Department. His first international post was a two-year stint in Ottawa , Canada , as 3rd Secretary . Since then he has served in Saigon ( 1974 - 1975 , as 2nd Secretary ), Vientiane ( 1975 on temporary duty), Hanoi ( 1979 as Chargé D’Affaires ), Brussels ( 1979 - 1983 , as a 1st Secretary with United Kingdom Delegation to NATO ), Kuala Lumpur ( 1983 - 1986 as Head Of Chancery ), and Ottawa 1989 - 1993 as Counsellor , Economic/Commercial. He was Deputy Head Of Mission in Bangkok 1993 - 1996 , and Consul-General in Toronto in 2000 . He was in the Southern European Department of the FCO 1975 - 1976 , and the Central and Southern African Department 1977 - 1978 , as Assistant, South East Asian Department 1986 - 1988 . In 1988 - 1989 he was on loan to industry, and 1996 - 1997 at the FCO on the Whitehall Scrutiny Review of Commercial Services. In 1997 - 2000 he was Head of Personnel Services Department. He spent 2000 - 2001 at the Royal College Of Defence Studies . Fell is widely disliked in the Pitcairn islands because of his dismissal of Commissioner Leon Salt , the British government's decision to staff Pitcairn with several outside police officers and social workers, and his office's handling of a Sex Abuse Scandal . Six of the seven men accused were convicted, with four of them sentenced to prison terms, but currently remain free on bail, pending an appeal to the Privy Council . Islanders fear that if the four (a third of the adult male population) are imprisoned, that may force the evacuation of Pitcairn, which has been successfully inhabited since 1790 , due to lack of self-sufficiency. Another cause of resentment is that during Fell's term regular ship service to the island, which brought in much-needed revenue, was ended. EXTERNAL LINK |