Ambrose Flux Dundas

Sir Ambrose Flux Dundas
KCIE, CSI
19th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
In office
9 September 1952 – 7 September 1959
Monarch George VI
Elizabeth II
Preceded by Sir Geoffrey Bromet
Succeeded by Sir Ronald Garvey
Governor of North-West Frontier Province
In office
8 April 1948 – 16 July 1949
Monarch King George VI
Preceded by Sir George Cunningham
Succeeded by Sahibzada Mohammad Kursheed
Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
In office
4 October 1947 – 8 April 1948
Monarch King George VI
Preceded by Sir Geoffrey Prior
Succeeded by Cecil Savidge
Personal details
Born Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas
14 April 1899(1899-04-14)
Died 29 April 1973(1973-04-29) (aged 74)
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Mary Forest Bracewell
Children One daughter
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford
Occupation Civil servant

Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas, KCIE, CSI (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 Partition of India 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.

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.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes. Volume 95. Kelly's. 1969. 
  2. ^ Provinces of Pakistan since 1947
  3. ^ World Statesmen: Isle of Man
  4. ^ Kermode, D.G. (2001). Offshore island politics: the constitutional and political development of the Isle of Man in the twentieth century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0853237778. 

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Government offices
Preceded by
Geoffrey Prior		 Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
1947–1948		 Succeeded by
Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge
Preceded by
Sir George Cunningham		 Governor of North-West Frontier Province
1948–1949		 Succeeded by
Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid
Preceded by
Sir Geoffrey Bromet		 Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
1952–1959		 Succeeded by
Sir Ronald Garvey