Edward Gent

Edward James Gent
High Commissioner for Malaya
In office
1 February 1948 – 4 July 1948
Succeeded bySir Henry Gurney
Governor of the Malayan Union
In office
1 April 1946 – 30 January 1948
Personal details
Born
Gerard Edward James Gent

28 October 1895
Kingston, UK
Died4 July 1948 (age 52)
Ruislip, Middlesex, UK
SpouseGuendolen Mary Wyeth
Alma materTrinity College, Oxford

Sir Edward James Gent KCMG DSO OBE MC (28 October 1895 – 4 July 1948) was the first appointed Governor of the Malayan Union in 1946. He was most famous for heading early British attempts to crush a pro-independence uprising in Malaya led by the Malayan Communist Party during the Malayan Emergency, before dying during the first year of the war in an aviation accident.


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