Sir Colin Hardwick Thornley

Sir Colin Hardwick Thornley (1907 – 1 March 1983) was a British colonial administrator. He was Governor of British Honduras from 1955/6 to 1961.

Life He was the son of John Hardwick Thornley, a physician in Scarborough and son of the Rev. John James Thornley of Workington, and his wife Kathleen Irene Taylor, daughter of Thomas Albert Oak(e)s Taylor of the Clarence Iron Works, Leeds, and sister of Tom Taylor. He was educated at Bramcote School and Uppingham School, and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford.

From 1945 to 1952 Thornley was involved in the administration of Kenya Colony. He moved to be Chief Secretary to the Protectorate of Uganda, 1952 to 1955. He was then Governor of British Honduras to 1961, retiring in 1962.