Sir Colin Hardwick Thornley KCMG CVO (1907 – 1 March 1983) was a British colonial administrator.
[1] Thornley joined the Colonial Administrative Service, and was in the Tanganyika Territory, from 1930 to 1939.
Internally he expressed the opinion that reverses in World War II's initial stages had some relation with the lack of connection between the British Empire and its subjects, a criticism raised by US allies.
[1] He assisted Governor Sir Philip Mitchell in defusing the contentious proposal for universal fingerprinting there, after the commission led by Bertrand Glancy had caused deadlock and Albert George Keyser insisted on further debate.
[1] Thornley was appointed Director-General of the Save the Children Fund in 1965, a post he held to 1974.