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'''Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn''' (22 September 1919 in [[Jamadoba]], [[India]] &ndash; 4 January 1981 in [[Entrecasteaux]], France). He was a captain in the [[Seaforth Highlanders]], artist, [[naval architect]] and also served as a Guatemalan diplomat. His father was born in [[Scotland]] and was chief consultant engineer to the [[Viceroy of India]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
Following the murder of Colonel [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], McGarvie-Munn's father-in-law [[Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes]] was elected, on 2 March 1958, Constitutional [[President of Guatemala]]. Fuentes was incensed by [[illegal fishing]] by [[Mexicans]] on Guatemala's Pacific coast, and two Mexican fishing boats were sunk by the Guatemalan Air Force. He challenged the [[President of Mexico|Mexican president]] to a duel on the border to settle the matter, and decided that Guatemala needed a navy. <br />
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McGarvie-Munn was an artist and member of the [[Royal Institute of Naval Architects]], an association of naval architects. Fuentes founded the [[Guatemalan Navy]] and made McGarvie-Munn briefly the Commander in Chief of the Navy. <br />
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In 1974 McGarvie-Munn acquired the seventeenth-century Château of [[Entrecasteaux]] in [[Var (département)|Var]], southeast France, which became his principal residence. Hugh Ian McGarvie-Munn and his son Iain Lachlan McGarvie-Munn immediately began the restoration of this château which had fallen into ruin and opened it to the public.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
In 1947 he married Carmen Atala Maria Ydígoras Laparra, the daughter of María Teresa and General and engineer Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes.<br />
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== Death and legacy ==<br />
Upon McGarvie-Munn's death his son continued the restoration. It was largely due to their efforts that Entrecasteaux has become a popular destination for artists and tourists.<br />
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==References==<br />
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=i7AxBgAAQBAJ Insight Guides: Provence & the French Riviera]<br />
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=wA_V2Do8sE0C Secret France: Charming Villages & Country Tours], page 237<br />
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