What is Baddeley Devesi?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Sir Baddeley Devesi |image = Baddeley Devesi (cropped).jpg |honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG|GCVO}} |order = 1st |office = Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |term_start = 7 July 1978 |term_end = 7 July 1988 |monarch = [[Elizabeth II]] |primeminister = [[Peter Kenilorea]]<br />[[Solomon Mamaloni]]<br />[[Ezekiel Alebua]] |predecessor = ''Office Established'' |successor = [[George Lepping|Sir George Lepping]] |birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1941|10|16}} |birth_place = [[Guadalcanal]], [[British Solomon Islands]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2012|2|16|1941|10|16}} |death_place = }} '''Sir Baddeley Devesi''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG|GCVO}} (October 16, 1941 – February 16, 2012) was a [[Solomon Islands|Solomon Islander]] politician. He was the first [[Governor-General of the Solomon Islands]] for two terms from 1978 to 1988.<ref name=wb>{{cite news|first=Tarcisius Tara |last=Kabutaulaka|title=Pacific Islands Stakeholder Participation in Development: Solomon Islands |url=http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/02/24/000094946_99031910570559/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt |work=[[World Bank]] |date=September 1998 |accessdate=2012-01-07}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Devesi, Baddeley}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:Governors-General of Solomon Islands]] [[Category:2012 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}