Henry Pybus Bell-Irving and Mrs. Nancy Bell-Irving, November 1979 Plaque on Front: OUR HONORARY COLONEL and LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR / Brig. The Hon. H.P. Bell-Irving, DSO, OBE, ED and Mrs. Nancy Bell-Irving / Presented by his Hon. Seaforth Aides-de-Camp /, C.B. Campbell, E.D. Danby, T.U. O'Neil, November 1979" Henry Pybus "Budge" Bell-Irving, OC DSO OBE OBC ED CD (January 21, 1913 – September 21, 2002) was the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1978 to 1983. Born in Vancouver, he attended the University of British Columbia, but withdrew because of the war. During World War II, Bell-Irving served with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and commanded a company of the battalion in Sicily and Italy and northwest Europe before becoming the commander of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade. Bell-Irving returned to Vancouver and he joined his family real estate company, Bell-Irving Insurance Agencies, which later merged with A.E. LePage in 1972. In 1974 he was elected Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade. In 1978, Governor General Jules Léger, on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, appointed him Lieutenant-Governor of BC. Bell-Irving met his wife, Nancy, while attending UBC and was married in April 1937.