behalf of the Ente di Colonizzazione del Latifondo Siciliano. 1943–1945: Cav. (Sir) Luigi Modica (Allied Military Government) 1945–1960: Charles Lawrence Hughes, formerly forestry manager in 1938 under George Woods. 1960–1981: Frank Edward King MBE (1922–2003), known as "Mr Frank", the last ducal administrator, who on 4 September 1981 confirmed the sale of the Castello and its park to the Commune of Bronte, excluding the Monastic Church which had earlier become state property. A soldier who had landed and fought in Sicily in 1943 during the Allied Invasion, he "fell in love with Sicily on first sight" and 3 years later married a local girl. In his obituary in La Sicilia newspaper, he was praised as an Inglese-Siculo ("Anglo-Sicilian") who had returned the Castello and park to their ancient splendour. "The barren lands of the Duchy he transformed into luxuriant orchards amongst the most admired, becoming a cultural treasure of Sicily and of the Sicilians". He restored the ancient monastic church and "for almost a half-century became the reference-point for the Embassy, the Anglican Church, a protagonist for humanitarian intervention, a gentleman known and appreciated in Italy, Europe and Overseas". In 1992 (?) he was created by the Queen an MBE for his professional and religious merits. Further reading Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte, Tales of Old Sicily, 1906; Bronte, Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of, The Duchy of Bronte: a memorandum written for his family in 1924 Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte, Sicilian Studies, 1915 Archives of the Dukes of Bronte, Palermo State Archives Antonio Petronaci, Luoghi della Ducea dei Nelson attraverso foto e cartoline d’epoca, 2002, William Sharp, Through Nelson's Duchy, Pall Mall Magazine, June 1903, pp. 225–36 & in Selected Writings of William Sharp, Vol. IV, Travel Sketches Salvo Nibali, Il Castello Nelson, 1985 Nunzio Galati, Maniace, The ex Nelson Duchy, Catania, 1988 Lucy Riall, Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town, Oxford, 2013 Lucy Riall, Nelson versus Bronte: Land, Litigation and Local Politics in Sicily, 1799–1860, European History Review, vol.29, 1999 Mario Catastro, La ducea inglesa ai piedi dell’ Etna Sources Website of Associazione Bronte Insieme ONLUS (www.bronteinsieme.it), founded 2001 by Franco Cimbali, Salvatore Di Bella, Giuliana Russo & Nino Liuzzo Benedetto Radice, Memorie storiche di Bronte (Historical memories of Bronte), Vols 1&2, Bronte 1928, 1936; background see digital text see Benedetto Radice, Il casale e l'abbazia di S. M. di Maniace,