Tin Tut

Tin Tut
တင်ထွဋ်

ICS
1st Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
4 January 1948  September 1948
Prime Minister U Nu
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Kyaw Nyein
Minister of Finance
In office
28 September 1946  4 January 1948
Prime Minister Aung San
Preceded by Office established
Chancellor of University of Rangoon
In office
1939–1942
Personal details
Born (1895-02-01)1 February 1895
Rangoon, British Burma
Died 18 September 1948(1948-09-18) (aged 53)
Rangoon, Burma
Political party AFPFL
Relations Htin Aung, Myint Thein and Kyaw Myint
Alma mater University of Cambridge

Tin Tut (Burmese: တင်ထွဋ်, pronounced: [tɪ̀ɴ tʰʊʔ]; 1 February 1895 – 18 September 1948) was the first 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Burma, and the Minister of Finance in Aung San's pre-independence government. Dulwich and Cambridge educated Tin Tut was the first Burmese to become an Indian Civil Service officer. He was Prime Minister Aung San's deputy in the government.[1] However he was not present in the cabinet meeting on 19 July 1947. On that day, assassination that claimed the lives of Aung San and six other cabinet ministers occurred .[2] He was assassinated in September 1948.

He was mortally wounded when a bomb exploded in his car on Sparks Street on 18 September 1948. He died shortly after in Rangoon General Hospital.

A close adviser of Aung San, he was instrumental in negotiations for Burma's independence including Panglong and Nu-Attlee agreements. Historian Thant Myint-U called him "the brightest Burmese officer of his generation".

References

  1. Thant Myint-U (2006). The River of Lost Footsteps--Histories of Burma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6.
  2. Maung Htin Aung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. p. 308.


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