Ambrose Flux Dundas Explained

Sir Ambrose Flux Dundas
Order:19th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
Term Start:9 September 1952
Term End:7 September 1959
Predecessor:Sir Geoffrey Bromet
Successor:Sir Ronald Garvey
Order2:2nd Governor of North-West Frontier Province
Term Start2:8 April 1948
Term End2:16 July 1949
Monarch2:King George VI
Governor-General2:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Khawaja Nazimuddin
Predecessor2:George Cunningham
Successor2:Sahibzada Mohammad Kursheed
Order3:Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
Term Start3:4 October 1947
Term End3:8 April 1948
Monarch3:King George VI
Predecessor3:Sir Geoffrey Prior
Successor3:Cecil Savidge
Birth Date:14 April 1899
Death Place:Binfield, Berkshire, England
Birthname:Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas
Nationality:British
Spouse:Mary Forest Bracewell
Children:One daughter
Alma Mater:Christ Church, Oxford
Occupation:Civil servant

Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (14 April 1899 – 29 April 1973) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator in British India in what later became Pakistan. He was also Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1952 to 1959.

Career

Flux Dundas was born in 1899, the son of Reverend Alfred William Flux Dundas. He was educated at the Harrow School, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1922 at the age of 23, and remained in the ICS until 1947, when the independence of Pakistan took place. He served as the last British governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then called the North-West Frontier Province) of Pakistan from 1948 to 1949.[2]

From 1952 to 1959 he was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.[3] Prior to his appointment as Lieutenant Governor, Flux Dundas had been general manager of the Bracknell Development Corporation, an eight-member committee administering the construction and development of Bracknell New Town. He returned to the BDC in 1959, serving as its chairman until 1967.[4]

He married Mary Forest Bracewell in 1931. They had one daughter, Anstice Ann Flux Dundas, born 12 December 1933 in Peshawar.

Flux Dundas died on 29 April 1973 at "Roxwell", his house in Binfield, Berkshire.

Honours

Flux Dundas was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in 1946, and was knighted KCIE (Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire) in 1948.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes . 1969 . Kelly's . 95.
  2. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Pakistan_states.html Provinces of Pakistan since 1947
  3. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Isle_of_Man.htm World Statesmen: Isle of Man
  4. Book: Kermode, D.G.. Offshore island politics: the constitutional and political development of the Isle of Man in the twentieth century . 2001 . Liverpool University Press . Liverpool . 0-85323-777-8.