Bernard Burrows

Bernard Burrows
Born	3 July 1910
Died	7 May 2002 (Age 91)
Alma mater	Eton College, Trinity College (Oxford)
Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee In office 1963 - 1966 Preceded by Hugh Stevenson Succeeded by Denis Greenhill

‘There is quite a lot to be said for a reasonably efficient feudalism’, Britain’s political resident in the Gulf, Sir Bernard Burrows, had commented a few months before the uprising, referring to the Gulf generally where Britain supported similar regimes. Burrows also noted three days after the British decision to intervene that there had been: ‘a noticeable swing of general opinion throughout the Sultanate in favour of Talib, who is becoming more and more recognised as the local exponent of Arabism, and against the Sultan, whose popularity is at a very low ebb now’.

Burrows was also aware that ‘it was fear of the British that kept’ the tribes in the Sultanate on the Sultan’s side ‘and only the thought that we were coming back which kept them from joining the rebels now’. Thus Britain ruled the country with terror and force in the name of the Sultan.

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