7th November 1911
Ralph Vibert is born
Ralph Vibert was Jersey’s solicitor general from 1948 until 1955 and, for two years from 1957, a deputy representing St Brelade. In 1959 he was elected a senator and remained in post until his retirement in 1987. He spent the Second World War as a cypher instructor in the New Forest before instructing Special Operations Executive recruits in India. He died on 10 November 2008, aged 97.
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Other events that occured in November
Tarka the Otter released in cinemas
- Based on Henry Williamson’s novel of the same name, the screenplay for Tarka the Otter was co-written by Gerald Durrell, founder of Jersey Zoo.
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Jersey sends its first contestant to Miss World
- Christine Sagan represented Jersey in 1974 when the island entered the Miss World competition for the first time.
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Poet and bailiff Robert Pipon Marett is born
- Marett had a creative side, and wrote extensively in Jèrriais under the pseudonym Laelius, often in La Patrie, the newspaper he founded.
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Jersey college principal is killed
- Thirty-four-year-old George Stanley Farnell, who was the principal of Victoria College, was found dead in a small cave at Plemont.
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