Background
He was born at Accrington, Lancashire, and died at Old Basing, Hampshire.
He was born at Accrington, Lancashire, and died at Old Basing, Hampshire.
He was educated at Street Paul"s School, London and at Worcester College, Oxford University.
He also played first-class cricket. Nash was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. Nash played minor counties cricket for Berkshire, making his debut for the county in the 1924 Minor Counties Championship against Northumberland.
He made eighteen further appearances for Berkshire, the last of which came against Oxfordshire in the 1930 Minor Counties Championship.
He made just a single first-class appearance for Oxford University against Lancashire at the University Parks in 1928. Nash studied at the London School of Economics after leaving Oxford and then joined the Indian Civil Service in 1931.
He was secretary to the Burmese delegation to the 1937 Coronation and the Imperial Conference of that year, and during the Second World War was superintendent of provinces in Burma, when he was captured by the Japanese. He walked to freedom in India and was then principal at the Burma Office, before returning to be secretary to the Viceroy during independence from 1946 to 1948.
Later he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as head of the Burmese, Vietnamese and Chinese programmes, becoming head of Far Eastern services before retiring in 1967 through ill-health.
He had been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1948.