Major Geoffrey Noel Burden (fl 1898-1980s), CMG (1952), MBE (1938), was educated at Exeter School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, undertaking military service, 1915-1923 and [1940]-1942, serving latterly in 2/2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland, 1940, 2nd East Africa (Holding Battalion), Northern Rhodesia, 1941, and the civil resettlement camp, Nyasaland, 1942. He began civilian work as a cadet, Nyasaland, 1925, district officer, 1927 and Director of Publicity, 1936. He became Chief Recruiting Officer, 1940 and Assistant Chief Secretary, 1945. He was made Commissioner of Labour, Gold Coast, 1946 and Chief Commissioner, 1950.