Patrick Muir Renison
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Sir Patrick Muir Renison GCMG (24 March 1911 – 10 November 1965) was a British colonial administrator.
Biography
Renison was born in 1911 in Rock Ferry, England. He attended Uppingham School, and later Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[1]
He entered the
Ceylon where he was appointed to the Ceylon Civil Service. He would remain in Ceylon until 1944, during which time he would hold a number of Civil Service posts across the country.[1]
Following the
Second World War, Renison was asked to assist the Colonial Office's plans for post-war recruitment. In 1947 he returned to the United Kingdom whereupon he was appointed an Assistant Secretary in the Colonial Office.[1] In 1948 he began work as Colonial Secretary of Trinidad and Tobago
.
Rension was appointed
Governor of Kenya between 1959 and 1962.[1]
He died in Marylebone, London on 10 November 1965, aged 54. His daughter, Anne Willoughby Renison, married Hugh Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere of Pitt River (b. 18 Jan 1934).[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "P.M. Renison Papers". Bodley.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
- ^ The West Indies & Caribbean Year Book: Anuario Comercial de Las Antillas Y Países Del Caribe. Caribook Limited. 1958. p. 332.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.