FORMER Senator and Cabinet Secretary Stanley Gascoigne died in hospital yesterday.

Acting Premier Randy Horton expressed "sincere condolences on behalf of the Government and people of Bermuda" to Mr. Gascoigne's wife, Sandy, and the couple's two sons, Tim and Michael,

Born in Ipswich, England in 1914, Mr. Gascoigne came to the island at the age of six. He achieved a master's degree in Education from Boston University and returned to teach, first at Port Royal School and then Saltus Grammar.

A keen athlete, he represented Bermuda in track and field in 1934, at the British Empire Games in London.

Appointed Inspector of Schools in 1953, he rose through the ranks of the Civil Service, eventually named as Secretary to the Cabinet, in 1972. Shortly after his retirement from that post in 1976, he was appointed to the Senate ? then known as the Legislative Council. He remained as a Senator until the 1985 General Election.

A keen ornithologist and naturalist, he was president of the Audubon Society from 1953 to 1950 and a member of the Bermuda Zoological Society.