Sir Frederick John Burrows

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(3 July 1887 – 20 April 1973) was a British politician who served as the last British

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during the

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. He was Governor of Bengal from 19 February 1946 to 14 August 1947. He was against the partition of Bengal. Burrows was a former Ross railway man and he was the president of the

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, the union representing railway workers in England. Sir

Adrian Carton de Wiart Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, (; 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer born of Belgian and Irish parents. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "i ...

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

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in the

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than he was of being Governor of Bengal."Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, ''Happy Odyssey'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1950, p. 277.

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1887 births 1973 deaths British governors of Bengal Politicians from Kolkata Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire British trade union leaders Grenadier Guards soldiers British Army personnel of World War I Presidents of the National Union of Railwaymen British people in colonial India {{UK-trade-unionist-bio-stub