What is Paul Scoon?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] |name = Sir Paul Scoon |image = Paul Scoon (cropped).jpg |honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|GCVO|OBE}} |caption = Sir Paul Scoon in 1983 |order = 2nd |office = Governor-General of Grenada |monarch = [[Elizabeth II]] |primeminister = [[Eric Gairy]] <small>(1978–79)</small><br>[[Maurice Bishop]] <small>(1979–83)</small><br>[[Bernard Coard]] <small>(1983)</small><br>[[Hudson Austin]] <small>(1983)</small><br>[[Nicholas Brathwaite]] <small>(1983–84)</small><br>[[Herbert Blaize]] <small>(1984–89)</small><br>[[Ben Jones (Grenada)|Ben Jones]] <small>(1989–90)</small><br>[[Nicholas Brathwaite]] <small>(1990–92)</small> |term_start = 30 September 1978 |term_end = 6 August 1992 |predecessor = [[Leo de Gale|Sir Leo de Gale]] |successor = [[Reginald Palmer|Sir Reginald Palmer]] |birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|7|4|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Gouyave]], [[British Windward Islands]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2013|9|2|1935|7|4|df=y}} |death_place = St. Paul's, Grenada |nationality = Grenadian |party = Independent |spouse = |children = |alma_mater = [[University of Leeds]]<br>[[University of Toronto]] |religion = }} '''Sir Paul Godwin Scoon''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|GCVO|OBE}} (4 July 1935 – 2 September 2013) was [[Governor-General of Grenada]] from 1978 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/grenada-governor-general-paul-scoon-dies-78-20138969 |title=Ex-Grenada Governor General Paul Scoon Dies at 78|publisher=ABC News|access-date=2013-09-04}}</ref> He was in charge during the rise and fall of the [[People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)|People's Revolutionary Government]] and during the [[Invasion of Grenada]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Scoon, Paul}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2013 dea