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

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