Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow

Sir Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG (born 9 March 1912), is a retired British diplomat. He is the only surviving former British colonial governor of The Bahamas.

Thurlow is the second son of Reverend Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 6th Baron Thurlow and a grandson of the Liberal politician Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow, who served as Paymaster-General under William Ewart Gladstone. In 1971 he succeeded his elder brother as 8th Baron Thurlow.

Thurlow served as High Commissioner to New Zealand from 1959 to 1963, as High Commissioner to Nigeria from 1963 to 1966 and as Governor of The Bahamas from 1968 to 1972.

Lord Thurlow's younger identical twin brother Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, PC, was a Judge of the High Court of Justice and a Lord Justice of Appeal.

References

• Who's Who
• Burke's Peerage

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Sir Howard George Charles Mallaby	High Commissioner to New Zealand 1959–1963	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Norman Galsworthy
Preceded by The Viscount Head	High Commissioner to Nigeria 1963–1966	Succeeded by Sir David Hunt
Government offices
Preceded by The Lord Grey of Naunton	Governor of the Bahamas 1968–1972	Succeeded by Sir John Warburton Paul
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Henry Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce	Baron Thurlow	Succeeded by Incumbent