One of the boroughs most distinguished residents is packing his bags after landing one of the countrys top jobs as the Queens representative on a Caribbean tax haven.
Sir John Vereker, currently Permanent Secretary of the Department of International Development, will take up his new three-year appointment as Governor of Bermuda, with his wife Judy, in February.
The couple received confirmation of the move last week and are now preparing to leave the Merton home
in which they have lived with their two children,
Jennifer and Andrew, since the early 70s.
Sir John told the Guardian he was very pleased about his new job and was looking forward to the move.
He has been organising aid to wartorn countries for eight years and applied for the island posting as a change.
He said: Ill miss running a successful government department, which is making a big contribution towards
the elimination of global
poverty.
Lady Vereker, development director at the Polka Childrens Theatre, Wimbledon, said she would miss the theatre where she has worked for 22 years. She moved to Merton from Washington DC almost 30 years ago.
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