The first Governor of Hunza in 1891

       

             

 Lieutenant later Major General Charles Townshend
The first Governor of Hunza in 1891

The First Military Governor of Hunza

N. S. Nash author of The Rise & Fall of Major General Charles Townshend described at Page; 47 that “Townshend was on a ‘high’. He was lord of all the surveyed at Hunza- although, frankly, it did not amount to much. Then, at the turn of the year, he was promoted to captain. Ah now! A captain, two mentions, an independent command, a military governor no less and the icing on the cake was that his cousin, the current Lord Townshend, was still not married- what more could a man ask for. Christmas 1891 was spent at ‘Hunza Castle’ as Townshend chose to call his new domain, and in a somewhat grandiose manner he ‘issued a proclamation that Hunza now belongs to the British Government and that as long as the inhabitants obey the British officer at Hunza all will go well for them’.”

Sir Claude Macdonald, British Ambassador to Peking

The British architect of the boundary line of 1899, known as the Macartney–MacDonald Line, presented to the Chinese in 1899 in a note by Sir Claude MacDonald. China believed that this had been the accepted boundary between China and Hunza in Gilgit Baltistan. (British India)