Education
Donat was educated at Ramjass College, the University of Delhi in India, and Nashotah House, Wisconsin, United States of America, and ordained in 1964.
Donat was educated at Ramjass College, the University of Delhi in India, and Nashotah House, Wisconsin, United States of America, and ordained in 1964.
Trevor Huddleston. Earlier on, in 1967, Donat became the first Mauritian Warden of Saint Andrew’s School, the only Anglican secondary school of the country. He became a Freeman of Beau Bassin/Rose Hill, Mauritius. Bishop Rex Donat was married to Gladys Donat—born Lutchmaya, who died in 1998—and has three sons: Jean, Norbert and Bruno.
In 2005, Donat was made Grand Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (GOSK), the second highest distinct order of merit in Mauritius, “for distinguished services to the Community.” Rex Donat, is the son of late Louis Mathieu Victor Donat, known as Victor Donat, Archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Mauritius.
He had been a pupil of the school from 1948 to 1954 and also a member of the teaching staff of the school since 1961.