Hugh Norman-Walker

Hugh Norman-Walker

Sir Hugh Selby Norman-Walker, KCMG, OBE (Chinese: 羅樂民, 1916 - 1985) was an officer in the British Colonial Office.

Norman-Walker was the son of Colonel J Norman-Walker CIE IMS of the Indian Army. He was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne, and Sherborne School. He then attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and competed in the Cambridge University Athletics team.

He was in the colonial service in India and by the 1960s was in charge in Nyasaland overseeing its transition to independence as Malawi. [K. J. Barnes "A Rough Passage: Memories of Empire" 2007 The Radcliffe Press ISBN:1845112644 ] From 1965 - 1966, he was the Commissioner of Bechuanaland and Governor of Seychelles from 1967 - 1969. He then became the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1969 - 1973. He served as a Colonial Secretary under the Governorship of Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench and Lord MacLehose of Beoch. From October to November 1971 Norman Walker was Administrator of Hong Kong.

On leaving Hong Kong he was in line to become Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man. But when it became known that his wife, an artist, would not accompany him to that posting, he was forced to decline the position.

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