Frederick Chalmers Bourne

Frederick Chalmers Bourne
Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar
In office 1946 – 15 August 1947
Preceded by	Henry Twynam
Succeeded by	position abolished
Governor of East Bengal
In office 15 August 1947 – 5 April 1950
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Feroz Khan Noon
Personal details
Born	(1891-08-12)12 August 1891 England
Died	Uckfield, West Sussex, England
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne (12 August 1891 – 3 November 1977) was an English colonial administrator who served in British India until 1947 and then in the new Dominion of Pakistan until 1950.

The son of Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne, a British consular official in China and later Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan, the young Bourne was commissioned into the British Army in 1910, and served in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. In 1920 he joined the Indian Civil Service and held several prominent positions in the administrations of Lahore and the Punjab between 1937 and 1945. He was appointed acting Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar from May to October 1945, and as the acting Governor of Assam in 1946. He became the last Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar in 1946, serving until independence of India on 15 August 1947. Bourne then became the first Governor of Pakistan's East Bengal, and served until 5 April 1950.

External links

• Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Frederick Chalmers Bourne in the National Archives

Political offices
Preceded by Henry Twynam	Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar 1946–1947	Succeeded by position abolished
Preceded by position created	Governor of East Bengal 1947–1950	Succeeded by Feroz Khan Noon