Tin Tut
| Tin Tut တင်ထွဋ် CBE | |
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| 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 4 January 1948 – September 1948 | |
| Prime Minister | U Nu |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Kyaw Nyein |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 28 September 1946 – 4 January 1948 | |
| Prime Minister | Aung San |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Chancellor of University of Rangoon | |
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In office 1939–1942 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 February 1895 Rangoon, British Burma |
| Died |
18 September 1948 (aged 53) Rangoon, Burma |
| Political party | AFPFL |
| Relations | Htin Aung, Myint Thein and Kyaw Myint |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Tin Tut, CBE (Burmese: တင်ထွဋ်, pronounced [tɪ̀ɴ tʰʊʔ]; also spelt Tin Htut; 1 February 1895 – 18 September 1948) was the first 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Burma, and the Minister of Finance in Aung San's pre-independence government.
Educated at Dulwich and Queen's College, Cambridge, Tin Tut was the first Burmese to become an Indian Civil Service officer. He was Prime Minister Aung San's deputy in the government.[1] However, he was not present in the cabinet meeting on 19 July 1947. On that day, assassination that claimed the lives of Aung San and six other cabinet ministers occurred .[2] He was assassinated in September 1948.
He was mortally wounded when a bomb exploded in his car on Sparks Street on 18 September 1948. He died shortly after in Rangoon General Hospital.
A close adviser of Aung San, he was instrumental in negotiations for Burma's independence including Panglong and Nu-Attlee agreements. Historian Thant Myint-U called him "the brightest Burmese officer of his generation".
References
- ↑ Thant Myint-U (2006). The River of Lost Footsteps--Histories of Burma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6.
- ↑ Maung Htin Aung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. p. 308.