John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton Cyprus crisis. However, negotiations with Archbishop Makarios III were unsuccessful and, eventually, Harding exiled Makarios to the British colony of Seychelles. On 21 March 1956 EOKA made an assassination attempt on Harding's life which failed as the time bomb under his bed failed to go off. It was not long after this that Harding offered a reward of £10,000 for General George Grivas, the leader of EOKA. Facing growing criticism in the United Kingdom about the methods he used and their lack of effectiveness, Sir John Harding resigned as Governor of Cyprus on 22 October 1957 and was replaced by
Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum (Dasoupolis Lyceum) is a public high school located in Dasoupoli, Strovolos. The reason for its founding was to cover the needs of the refugees after the 1974 Turkish invasion. Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum (Dasoupolis Lyceum) was established in 1978 in Nicosia. Originally the school functioned as a gymnasium (middle school) from 1978 to 1983. From then on up to 1986 it functioned as a gymnasium and a lyceum. Since 1986 it functions only as a lyceum. It is one of the biggest lyceums in Nicosia with around seven hundred students enrolling every