Michael Bernacchi


Michael Louis Bernacchi was a British colonial administrator, that was Resident Commissionner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 1952 to 1961.
Bernacchi also served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, and as a district officer in the Colonial Office in British Malaya. He was engaged to Elaine Chapman from Navua, Fiji. Chapman was the granddaughter of Sir John Maynard Hedstrom, founder of Morris Hedstrom and Company, the largest trading corporation in Fiji.