Frederick Burrows Explained

Frederick Burrows
Office:Governor of the Bengal Presidency
Term Start:19 February 1946
Term End:15 August 1947
Predecessor:The Lord Casey
Successor:Office dissolved
Birth Date:1887 6, df=y
Death Date:20 April 1973

Sir Frederick John Burrows (3 July 1887 – 20 April 1973)[1] was a British politician who served as the last British Governor of Bengal during the British Raj in India. He was Governor of Bengal from 19 February 1946 to 14 August 1947.[2] He was against the partition of Bengal.[3] Burrows was a former Ross railway man and he was the president of the National Union of Railwaymen, the union representing railway workers in England.

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart records: "He had endeared himself to the Burrah Sahibs of Calcutta (Kolkata) with one of his first speeches when, alluding to his modest beginning on the railway, he said, 'When you gentlemen were huntin' and shootin', I was shuntin' and hootin'. He seemed to me to be far more proud of having been a sergeant-major in the Grenadier Guards in the First World War than he was of being Governor of Bengal."[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Riddick . John F. . Who was who in British India . 1998 . Greenwood Press . 978-0-313-29232-3 . 56–57 . 4 February 2021 . en.
  2. Web site: Welcome To The Rajbhavan, Kolkata . 15 July 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050121204341/http://rajbhavankolkata.nic.in/html/governors07.htm . 21 January 2005 . dead .
  3. Book: Menon, V.P. . V. P. Menon . 1957 . The Transfer of Power in India . Princeton University Press . 354 . 4352298.
  4. Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, London: Jonathan Cape, 1950, p. 277.