John Evelyn Shuckburgh
Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh, KCMG, was a British colonial administrator.
Biography
Shuckburgh was the eldest son of the academic Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh and Frances Mary Pullen. His eldest son, later diplomat and Middle East expert, Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, was born in 1909 in London.Shuckburgh was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. As a member of the British Colonial Service, Shuckburgh was active in India, and in Palestine. He was a Dickens enthusiast and was asked by Oxford University Press to write the foreword to A Tale of Two Cities.