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Guy Powles
Sir Guy Richardson Powles (5 April 1905 – 24 October 1994) was a New Zealand diplomat, the last Governor of Western Samoa and architect of Samoan independence, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman.
==Early life==
Powles was born in Otaki, north of Wellington, in 1905. Powles was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Guy Powles, a decorated military soldier who served with distinction during World War I as Brigade Major New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade 1914–16 and AA & QMG ANZAC Mounted Division 1916–18. In 1922 he wrote a volume of the New Zealand official history, 'The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine' Volume III 'Official History New Zealand's Effort in the Great War', and in 1928 edited 'The history of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914–1919' by Officers of the Regiment, and later became Chief of General Staff of the New Zealand Army.
Powles earned his LLB from Victoria University of Wellington and practised as a barrister in Wellington from 1929–1940. During the War, Powles went on active military service, and achieved the rank of colonel, commanding the New Zealand artillery regiment in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal and New Caledonia.
Powles was a founding member of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs in 1934, along with Alister McIntosh, John Cawte Beaglehole, and William Sutch.
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