THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1985
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SIR HUGH NORMAN-WALKER DIES ******
THE GOVERNMENT HAS LEARNED WITH MUCH REGRET OF THE DEATH OF SIR HUGH NORMAN-WALKER, WHO WAS COLONIAL SECRETARY FROM 1969 TO 1973.
SIR HUGH, WHO WAS 69, DIED YESTERDAY IN BRITAIN. BY LADY NORMAN-WALKER.
HE IS SURVIVED
SIR HUGH NORMAN-WALKER, KCMG, OBE WAS BORN IN LONDON IN 1916 AND WAS BROUGHT UP LARGELY IN NORTH DEVON EXCEPT FOR PERIODS WHEN HE JOINED HIS PARENTS THEN SERVING IN INDIA. HE TOOK AN HONOURS DEGREE FROM CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
HE JOINED THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE IN 1938 AND SERVED UNTIL 1948 IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES. SIR HUGH JOINED THE COLONIAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE IN 1949 AND WAS POSTED TO NYASALAND (NOW MALAWI).
HE WAS APPOINTED AS HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONER IN BECHUANAL ANJ IN 1965 AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL IT BECAME INDEPENDENT AS BOTSWANA IN SEPTEMBER 1966.
SIR HUGH THEN BECAME GOVERNOR OF THE SEYCHELLES, AN APPOINTMENT HE HELD FOR TWO YEARS UNTIL BEING APPOINTED COLONIAL SECRETARY OF HONG KONG IN MARCH 1969.
ON NEWS OF HIS DEATH, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID: +S IR HUGH LEFT A VERY FOND MEMORY TO THOSE WHO WORKED WITH HIM DURING HIS TERM AS COLONIAL SECRETARY OF HONG KONG. HE WILL BE WARMLY REMEMBERED BY HIS COLLEAGUES AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO TREASURED HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR A LONG TIME AFTER HIS RETIREMENT FROM HONG KONG.+
SAID I KNEW HIM THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR DENYS ROBERTS, SAID: FOR 32 YEARS AND WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS THROUGHOUT THAT PERIOD. I SHALL REMEMBER HIM AS A VERY WISE MAN AND A PERSON OF ENORMOUS WIDTH OF EXPERIENCE FROM WHICH A NUMBER OF TERRITORIES, INCLUDING HONG KONG, BENEFITTED. I SHALL MISS HIM VERY MUCH.+
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