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
Contact 94 goes off the air
- Radio station Contact 94 broadcast from France but went off the air when the chance to apply for a licence in the Channel Islands came up.
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Spy Philippe d’Auvergne is born in Jersey
- Philippe d’Auvergne was a mariner who was on the cusp of inheriting a fortune and a title when France put its foot down and said 'no'.
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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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Bailiff Cecil Stanley Harrison is born
- Cecil Stanley Harrison was Bailiff of Jersey and had earlier played a role in the trial that had resulted in the island's last execution.
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