Knights of Pius IX: Kurt Waldheim, Abbas II of Egypt, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Kamisese Mara, Myron Charles Taylor, Amha Selassie of Ethiopia

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Kurt Waldheim, Abbas II of Egypt, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Kamisese Mara, Myron Charles Taylor, Amha Selassie of Ethiopia, Władysław Grabski, Andrew Bertie, William Petre, 12th Baron Petre, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, Máximo Etchecopar, Manuel Silvela y Le Vielleuze, Alphonse Desjardins, Sir George Bowyer, 7th Baronet, Jose Maria Delgado, Order of Pius IX, Jean-Bernard Raimond, Saturnino Calderón de la Barca y Collantes, Joaquín de Roncali, 1st Marquis of Roncali, John W. McDevitt. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, CF, GCMG, KBE (May 6, 1920 - April 18, 2004) is considered the founding father of the modern nation of Fiji. He was Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as President from 1993 to 2000. Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Uluilakeba Mara was born on 6 May 1920, in Vanuabalavu in the archipelago of Lau, the son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, head of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, and his first wife Lusiana Qolikoro, who was related to Tongan royalty and was also descended from an English missionary. Mara's title, Ratu, which means "Chief," was hereditary; as the hereditary Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands, he held the titles of Tui Lau, and Tui Nayau kei Sau ni Vanua ko Lau. He succeeded to the Tui Nayau title in 1969, following the death of his father in 1966; he was later installed as Tui Lau, inheriting the title left vacant by his cousin¹ Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, who had died in 1958. Mara was educated first at Sacred Heart College, Auckland then attended Knox College, Otago University in New Zealand, where he studied medicine (1942 to 1945). He never finished his medical course, because his great-uncle and ment...