Tin Tut

Tin Tut CBE
တင်ထွတ်
1st Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 4 January 1948 – 16 August 1948[1]
Prime Minister	U Nu
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kyaw Nyein
Minister of Finance
In office 28 September 1946 – 10 June 1947
Prime Minister	Aung San
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Thakin Mya
Minister of Finance
In office 19 July 1947 – 4 January 1948
Prime Minister	Aung San
Preceded by	Thakin Mya
Succeeded by	U Tin
Chancellor of University of Rangoon
In office 1939–1942
Personal details
Born	(1895-02-01)1 February 1895 Rangoon, British Burma
Died	18 September 1948(1948-09-18) (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 [tɪ̀ɰ̃ tʰʊʔ]; also spelt Tin Htut; 1 February 1895 – 18 September 1948) was the 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Burma, and the Minister of Finance in Aung San's pre-independence government.[2]

Educated at Dulwich and Queens' 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.[3] 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 .[4]

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

1. ဦးသောင်း, ကြေးမုံ (1971). ဗမာ့ခေတ်မှ ကြေးမုံသို့. ရန်ကုန်: ပုဂံစာအုပ်တိုက်. p. ၈၉.
2. "U Tin Tut, one of the most important figures in modern Burmese history". lostfootsteps.org.
3. Thant Myint-U (2006). The River of Lost Footsteps--Histories of Burma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6.
4. Maung Htin Aung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. p. 308.