Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns

Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns GCMG (born November 9, 1887 in Basseterre , † September 29, 1980 in London ) was a British colonial administrator and governor .

biography

Burns was one of four children of St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla administrator James Patrick Burns and his wife Agnes Zulma Delisle. His father died in 1896. Burns attended St. Edmund's College in Old Hall Green , Hertfordshire , from 1901 . In 1914 his mother died too.

He served as a member of the British Colonial Service in various capacities, from 1905 to 1912 in the Leeward Islands , then until 1924 in Nigeria , became Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1927 , was Colonial Secretary in the Bahamas until 1929 and then returned to Nigeria as deputy chief secretary until 1934. In 1914 he married Kathleen Fitzpatrick Hardtman, with whom he had daughters Barbara and Benedicta.

From November 2, 1934 to February 24, 1939, he was Governor of Belize and in 1936 was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George . From 1942 to December 18, 1943 he was Governor of Nigeria and also served as Governor of the Gold Coast from June 29, 1942 . On August 2, 1947, he handed over this office to George Ernest London and was until 1956 Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom on the UN Trust Council .

In 1942 he was made a Knight of the Order of Malta and in 1946 became Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He died in London's Westminster Hospital in 1980 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hardtman Family .
2. ↑ Belize .
3. ↑ Nigeria ( Memento from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Sir Alan Burns Collection of Gold Coast (ie Ghana) photographs, 1940s (English).
5. ^ Second Generation ( Memento from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster	Governor of British Honduras 1934–1939	Sir John Adams Hunter
Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh	Governor of Nigeria 1942–1943	Sir Arthur Richards