The death has been announced of Admiral Sir Nigel Cecil.

Sir Nigel, who was the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man between 1980 and 1985, died on Friday.

His son Rob Cecil, who now lives in US having married an American, said: ’Very sadly my father passed away on Friday. He had been admitted to hospital a week earlier with double pneumonia.

’Although the end came more quickly than anticipated, my father did at least die with my mother at his side.’