NEW GOVERNOR OF BENGAL
FORMER RAILWAY PORTER LONDON, November 7. A one-time railway porter who became president of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen is the new Governor-designate of Bengal, succeeding Mr R. G. Casey, whose resignation has been accepted by the King. • - The new Governor is Mr Frederick John Burrows, aged 56, who was a quartermaster-sergeant in the Grenadier Guards in. the 1914-18 war. Mr Burrows has long been a leading personality in the Trades Union Congress. It is known that Mr Churchill had great respect for his talents, and' in consequence appointed him to the Ceylon Commission on constitutional reform and the Lord Chancellor's committee on poor persons' legal aid in year. Mr Burrows rises by the Governorship from a former wage of £2s 10s a week as a railway porter to £9OOO sterling a year, plus nearly £30,000 for his staff and personal expenses. He still lives in a small cottage in Herefordshire. He is the first union leader to be appointed to a Governorship in India. Hitherto the Governorship of the 60,000,000 people of Bengal has been regarded as a job for aristocrats or wellknown political or economic personalities.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24747, 12 December 1945, Page 10
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