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'''Sir Frederick John Burrows''' [[Order of the Star of India|GCSI]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]] (3 July 1887 – 20 April 1973)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riddick |first1=John F. |title=Who was who in British India |date=1998 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-29232-3 |pages=56–57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LI8UAQAAIAAJ&q=Sir+Frederick+John+Burrows+b.+1887 |access-date=4 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> was a British politician who served as the last British [[Governor of Bengal]] during the [[British Raj]] in [[India]]. He was Governor of Bengal from 19 February 1946 to 14 August 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rajbhavankolkata.nic.in/html/governors07.htm |title=Welcome To The Rajbhavan, Kolkata<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=15 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050121204341/http://rajbhavankolkata.nic.in/html/governors07.htm |archive-date=21 January 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was against the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|partition of Bengal]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Menon |first=V.P. |author-link=V. P. Menon |year=1957 |title=The Transfer of Power in India |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=354 |oclc=4352298}}</ref> Burrows was a former [[Ross-on-Wye|Ross]] railway man and he was the president of the [[National Union of Railwaymen]], the union representing railway workers in England.<br />
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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."<ref>Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, ''Happy Odyssey'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1950, p. 277.</ref><br />
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