{"id":"hugh-norman-walker","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugh-norman-walker","language":"en","name":"Hugh Norman-Walker","name_en":"Hugh Norman-Walker","name_ne":null,"description":"British Colonial governor (1916–1985)","headline":"British Colonial governor (1916–1985)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Sir Hugh Selby Norman-Walker  (17 December 1916 – 28 August 1985) was a British colonial official. He served in India from 1938 to 1948. Joining the Colonial Office in 1949, he successively served as an Administrative Officer and an Assistant Secretary in Nyasaland, and was seconded to the Cabinet Office of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953. He returned to Nyasaland to become Development Secretary in 1954, Deputy Financial Secretary in 1960 and Secretary to the Treasury in 1961. He remained in the government until 1965 when Nyasaland gained independence as Malawi in 1964. In 1965, Sir Hugh was posted to the Bechuanaland Protectorate as Her Majesty's Commissioner. Knighted in 1966, in September of the same year he witnessed the independence of the Protectorate as Botswana. In the next year, Norman-Walker was posted to the Seychelles as the Governor and Commander-in-Chief but his short tenure came to an end when he was assigned to succeed Sir Michael Gass, who was in turn appointed High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, as Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1969. He was once rumoured to be the designated candidate to succeed Sir David Trench as the Governor of Hong Kong, but the rumour soon died out when the post was taken up by Sir Murray MacLehose, a career diplomat, in 1971.","summary_more":["Sir Hugh was supposed to become the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man when his tenure in Hong Kong ended in 1973. However, when it became known that his wife would not accompany him, he was forced to decline the offer. Sir Hugh was not compensated with another post for his withdrawal. He spent his retirement in England and was appointed chairman of the Isle of Wight County Structure Plan Panel in 1976."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"17 December 1916","date":"1916-12-17"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"London","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"28 August 1985","date":"1985-08-28"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Wiltshire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23183"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United Kingdom","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145"},{"text":"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174193","end":"1927-04-12"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Corpus Christi College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536282"},{"text":"Sherborne School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2278254"},{"text":"St Cyprian's School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7592927"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Governor of the Seychelles (1967–1969)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139325996","start":"1967","end":"1969"},{"text":"Governor of Hong Kong","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159846"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Officer of the Order of the British Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10762848"},{"text":"Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12177415"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Norman-Walker","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Hugh Norman-Walker born?","a":"Hugh Norman-Walker was born on 17 December 1916 in London."},{"q":"What positions has Hugh Norman-Walker held?","a":"Positions held by Hugh Norman-Walker include: Governor of the Seychelles (1967–1969); Governor of Hong Kong."},{"q":"Where did Hugh Norman-Walker study?","a":"Hugh Norman-Walker was educated at Corpus Christi College, Sherborne School, St Cyprian's School."}],"related":[{"name":"Matthew Nathan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/matthew-nathan"},{"name":"William Peel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/william-peel"},{"name":"Alexander Robert Johnston","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexander-robert-johnston"},{"name":"Cecil Harcourt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/cecil-harcourt"},{"name":"Franklin Gimson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/franklin-gimson"},{"name":"George Digby Barker","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/george-digby-barker"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Hugh Norman-Walker","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Norman-Walker","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4327425","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4327425","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Hugh Norman-Walker, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Hugh Norman-Walker\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/hugh-norman-walker. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T13:59:50Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugh-norman-walker","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugh-norman-walker","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugh-norman-walker?lang=ne"}}