Captain don stewart biography
- Captain Don Stewart was best known as Captain Don, The Father of Bonaire.
- Captain Don Stewart, was best known as Captain Don, The Father of Bonaire.
- The 37 year old Don, an American born in California, had a wild and eventful life behind him when he arrived on Bonaire, penniless and eager to work.
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Donald William Stewart
British military officer and administrator
CaptainSir Donald William StewartKCMG (1860 – 1 October 1905) was a British military officer and Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate
Early life
He was born in London, the son of Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet, a former Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.
Career
Stewart followed his father into the army and was commissioned with the Gordon Highlanders. He served in India and between 1879 and 1880 took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, during which he was severely injured.[1] He went on to serve in the First Boer War in 1881 and the Mahdist War between 1884 and 1885.[2] He left the army in 1888.[1]
In 1894 he was sent to Kumasi on the Gold Coast as a political agent. In 1896 he became the first British Resident in Kumasi, and served during the Second Ashanti Expedition.[3] He remained on the Gold Coast until August 1904, when he was made Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate.[4][5] At the beginning of his t
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“Dropped anchor in the roads of the township (Kralendijk) former outpost of the Dutch West Indies. Bay like glass, a spectrum of shimmering blues, extraordinarily clear. To the north a craggy silhouette of small mountains sloping southward to a flat spit of coral rimmed beach. Brilliant tropical fish of all varieties. Looks to be a fantastic underwater island.â€
Captain Don
The start of Bonaire’s sport diving industry can be traced back to a momentous event which took place in the year 1962 with the arrival on the island of Captain Don Stewart.
The 37 year old Don, an American born in California, had a wild and eventful life behind him when he arrived on Bonaire, penniless and eager to work. He had purchased the 69ft twin masted schooner Valery Queen in 1955 with the intention of renting it out to Hollywood studios as a pirate boat. When it turned out to be rather too small for this purpose, the boat found its niche as a location for the wild boat parties with which Don passed his evenings. Boat chartering drove him south until he finally made it through the Panama
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Don Stewart (Bonaire activist)
American inventor, Bonairean activist, scuba diver and founder of Bonaire Marine Park
Don Stewart | |
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June 30, 2008 | |
| Born | Donal A. Stewart 1925 San Francisco Bay area, California, United States |
| Died | May 30, 2014(2014-05-30) (aged 88–89) Bonaire |
| Other names | Captain Don, Donald Stewart |
| Occupation(s) | Scuba diver, conservationist, environmentalist, inventor, writer, hotelier |
| Known for | "The Father of Bonaire", founder of Bonaire Marine Park, environmental activist, brought tourism to Bonaire[1] |
| Partner | Janet Thibault[2] |
| Children | Kevin Gwen[3] |
| Awards | Order of Orange-Nassau, Knight International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame Bonaire's Lifetime Achievement Award |
Captain Don Stewart, (born Donal A. Stewart; 1925 – May 30, 2014), was best known as Captain Don, The Father of Bonaire.[1][4][5] In the early 1950s, he invented and patented an "adapter for screen cloth" which is basically the frame for a screen door.[6] He was al
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