Henry Pybus Bell-Irving Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Brigadier The Honourable
Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
Honorific-Suffix:OC, DSO, OBE, OBC, ED, CD
Nationality:Canadian
Order:23rd Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
Term Start:May 18, 1978
Term End:July 15, 1983
Predecessor:Walter Stewart Owen
Successor:Robert Gordon Rogers
Governor General:Jules Léger
Edward Schreyer
Premier:Bill Bennett
Birth Date:January 21, 1913
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia

Henry Pybus "Budge" Bell-Irving, (January 21, 1913  - September 21, 2002) was the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1978 to 1983.

Born in Vancouver, he was educated at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island and Loretto at Musselburgh, Scotland. He returned to attend the University of British Columbia, but withdrew because of the war. During World War II, Bell-Irving served with The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and commanded a company of the battalion in Sicily and Italy and northwest Europe before becoming the commander of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade.

Next he returned to Vancouver and he joined his family real estate company, Bell-Irving Insurance Agencies, which later merged with A.E. LePage in 1972. In 1974 he was elected Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade.

In 1978, Governor General Jules Léger, on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, appointed him Lieutenant-Governor of BC.

Bell-Irving met his wife, Nancy, while attending UBC and was married in April 1937.

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