Sir John Shaw Rennie GCMG OBE (12 January 1917 Glasgow – 12 August 2002) was a British civil servant UNRWA’s Commissioner-General from 1971 to 1977.John Rennie was educated at Hillhead High School Glasgow University and Balliol College Oxford. In 1951 Rennie was appointed Britain’s deputy colonial secretary for Mauritius. He was the British Resident in Vanuatu from 1955 to 1962. From 1962 to 1968 he was Governor of Mauritius overseeing Mauritius’ transition to independence.
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