Major General Sir Duncan Cumming, KBE, CB (10 August 1903 – 10 December 1979) was a twentieth-century British colonial administrator.
In 1930, he married Nancy Acheson Houghton (died 1971); they had one daughter, the author Ann Schlee (born 1934).
Cumming attended Giggleswick School in the West Riding of Yorkshire and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history.
[1] During, and after, the war he was responsible for the civil administration of all of the occupied Italian Colonies in the Middle East, of which Eritrea was one.
[2] Subsequently, he worked for BOAC as managing director of Associated Companies Ltd, 1955–59 and Adviser on African Affairs, 1959–64.