Ambrose Flux Dundas

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Sir Ambrose Flux Dundas KCIE, CSI
19th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
In office 9 September 1952 – 7 September 1959
Monarch	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 (1899-04-14)14 April 1899
Died	29 April 1973(1973-04-29) (aged 74) Binfield, Berkshire, England
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.

Flux Dundas died on 29 April 1973 at "Roxwell", his house in Binfield, Berkshire.^[5]

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

↑ 1.0 1.1 Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes. Volume 95. Kelly's. 1969.
↑ Provinces of Pakistan since 1947
↑ World Statesmen: Isle of Man
↑ 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 0-85323-777-8.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 46030. p. 8384. 17 July 1973.

External links

Pathe film of Isle of Man's 19th governor being sworn in (BBC News)

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

v t e Lieutenant Governors of the Isle of Man

Hope Dawson Shaw Murray Smelt Ready Hope Pigott-Stainsby-Conant Loch Walpole Ridgeway Henniker-Major Somerset Fry Hill Butler Granville Bromet Flux Dundas Garvey Stallard Paul Cecil New Jones Daunt MacFadyen Haddacks Wood

Persondata
Name	Flux Dundas, Ambrose
Alternative names	Flux Dundas, Ambrose Dundas (full name)
Short description	British civil servant and colonial administrator
Date of birth	14 April 1899
Place of birth
Date of death	29 April 1973
Place of death	Binfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

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