Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne, KCSI CIE (12 August 1891 – 3 November 1977) was an English colonial administrator who served in British India until 1947 and then in the new Dominion of Pakistan until 1950.
He studied in Rugby and finished his master's degree in Christ Church, Oxford.
[2] Bourne was commissioned into the British Army in 1910, and served in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
In 1920, he joined the Indian Civil Service and held several prominent positions in the administrations of Lahore and the Punjab between 1937 and 1945.
[1][2] He became the last Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar in 1946, serving until independence of India on 15 August 1947.