and BVRC would both maintain skeleton command structures till their strengths were built back up again in 1951 (they would amalgamate in 1965 into the Bermuda Regiment). Gorham entered the BVRC, renamed the Bermuda Rifles, in which he served for a number of years as second-in-command. He was intended to replace Lieutenant-Colonel J.C. Astwood as commanding officer in 1954, but was unable to do so due to illness. Major HRG Evans instead took command. Gorham was part of the detachment sent to London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, departing from Bermuda aboard on 30 April. He retired from the army with the substantive rank of captain, however he was awarded the honorary rank of colonel in the Royal Artillery. Civil life In his civil life, Richard Gorham became a prominent businessman and Member of the Parliament of Bermuda (originally titled Member of the Colonial Parliament, or MCP, but today simply Member of Parliament, or MP). He donated much of his wealth to a host of causes, including the Bermuda Maritime Museum, and the Bermuda Sloop Foundation. He was appointed an Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order (CBE) in the Queen's New Year Honours on 31 December 1977, and a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's New Year Honours on 31 December 1994, for public services. Bibliography Jennifer M. Ingham (now Jennifer M. Hind), Defence, Not Defiance: A History of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps, Pembroke, Bermuda: The Island Press Ltd. Lt. Commander Ian Strannack, The Andrew and the Onions: The Story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795–1975, The Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, The Bermuda Maritime Museum, P.O. Box MA 133, Mangrove Bay, Bermuda MA BX. Dr. Edward C. Harris, Bermuda Forts 1612–1957, The Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, The Bermuda Maritime Museum. Lt.-Col. Roger Willock, USMC, Bulwark of Empire: Bermuda's Fortified Naval Base 1860–1920, The Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, The Bermuda Maritime Museum. Sqn.-Ldr Colin A. Pomeroy, Flying Boats of Bermuda, Printlink, PO Box 937, Hamilton, Bermuda HM DX. Major Cecil Montgomery-Moore, DFC, and Peter Kilduff, That's My Bloody Plane, Chester, Connecticut: The Pequot Press, 1975. . References External links The Royal Gazette, Bermuda, 30 December 1994 Bermuda Online website Bermuda War Veterans Association (BWVA) notice Notice of the marriage of Gorham's stepdaughter, Robin Auchincloss, to Henry Dwight Sedgwick Notice of the marriage of Gorham's son, Anthony Masters McIntire Gorham, a trust