Frederick Burrows

For the Australian Brigadier, see Frederick Burrows (Australian soldier). For Sir Frederick Burrows, 2nd Baronet, see Burrows baronets.

Sir Frederick Burrows GCSI GCIE MSM DL JP
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Governor of the Bengal Presidency
In office 19 February 1946 – 15 August 1947
Preceded by	The Lord Casey
Succeeded by	Office dissolved
Personal details
Born	(1887-07-03)3 July 1887
Died	23 April 1973(1973-04-23) (aged 85)

Sir Frederick John Burrows GCSI GCIE MSM DL JP (3 July 1887 – 23 April 1973) was a British trade unionist who served as the last British Governor of Bengal during the British Raj in India.

Biography

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 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."