Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George was a British diplomat.
Background
Thurlow was 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.
Education
Trinity College; Shrewsbury School.
Career
He was the last surviving former British colonial governor of The Bahamas. 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. Thurlow"s younger identical twin brother Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, Personal Computer, was a Judge of the High Court of Justice and a Lord Justice of Appeal.
Thurlow died in England at the age of 101.