Anthony Robert Trickett MBE DL (1940 – 17 May 2013) was a

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doctor and Lord Lieutenant of Orkney. Trickett practised in several hospitals in

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between 1964 and 1966, then demonstrating Anatomy at

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between 1966 and 1967. From 1967 to 1973, he was a

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at Pembroke in

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and from 1973 to 2000 in Hoy and Walls. From 1973, he was Honorary Medical Advisor of Longhope Lifeboat and became its Honorary Secretary in 1995. From 2000 he was chairman of the Longhope Lifeboat Museum Trust. Trickett was a Divisional Medical Advisor. He was a member of the Medical and Survival Committee of the

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(RNLI) and received the Institution's Silver Badge in 1994 and the Gold Badge in 2004. Trickett was a trustee of the Hoy Trust from 1984, becoming its chairman in 1992. From 2003, he was

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of the Pickaquoy Centre in

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. Between 2000 and 2006, he was director of Orkney Enterprise. He was a director of the Gable End Theatre in

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and chairman of the Hoy Half Marathon, which he had founded with John Eccles. Having been made a Member of the

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(MBE) in 1998, Trickett was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of

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in 1999. In 2005, he was made Vice Lord Lieutenant and on 27 February 2007 he became

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. Trickett died in May 2013, leaving a widow.

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* 1940 births 2013 deaths Academics of the University of Manchester Lord-lieutenants of Orkney Members of the Order of the British Empire Royal National Lifeboat Institution people 20th-century Scottish medical doctors {{Scotland-med-bio-stub