Hammer DeRoburt GCMG OBE (25 September 1922 – 15 July 1992) was the first President of the Republic of Nauru. He was in power of the country for most of its first twenty years of independence.[1]
He was given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982.
DeRoburt died on 15 July 1992 in Melbourne, Australia from diabetes, aged 69.
References
- ↑ Nancy Viviani (1970) Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress Australian National University Press, p. 107