Maybury , Maurice Alfred , 1914-1995 , colonial administrator

Maurice Maybury was born in 1914. He served in Burma and was Sub-Divisional Officer, Kawkareik, when the Japanese crossed the border from Siam into Burma in 1942. He withdrew with the Army into India over the land route from northern Burma. He went on to serve as Permanent Secretary to the Reconstruction Department in Simla, India. As a Civil Affairs Officer, he later accompanied the Army through Burma, as part of the team restoring civil administration, ending in Mergui. After the capitulation of the Japanese in 1945 he reverted to civil status and became Deputy Commissioner at Mergui, c1945-1947. Maybury served in the Colonial Service in Uganda as Commissioner for Commerce in 1950-1960. He was also a member of the Legislative Council and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Services. At home in the UK he became a history master. From 1967 until 1974 he served as Adviser to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Imperial Ethiopian Government. From 1975 until 1977 he was assigned to the Ministry of Finance, Commerce and Industry, Government of Lesotho, as Export Promotion Adviser. This appointment was made through the United Nations. The Commonwealth Secretariat later appointed him to a position in Malta. From there he retired. He was married with two sons. He died in 1995. Publications: memoirs [1984-6], comprising The daily round [volume 1], Flight of the Heaven-born (volume 2), and Swan-song of the Heaven-born (volume 3); Pearl of Africa (1991).