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Harold Alfred MacMichael was educated at Bedford School and Magdalen College, Cambridge. he joined the civil service beginning work in Sudan before being moved to the Blue Nile and Khartoum Provinces. From 1933-1937 he served as the Governor of Tanganyika. In 1938 he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine in a troubled period and MacMichael survived several assassination attempts. In 1945 he was mover to the Malay States where he negotiated treaties with the Malay rulers. He died in Folkestone, Kent in 1969.

Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, was an administrator in India, politician, and author. He served as Secretary of State for India from 1935 to 1937 and Secretary of State for India and Burma from 1937 to 1940. He was styled Lord Dundas until 1892 and Earl of Ronaldshay between 1892 and 1929.