Flux Dundas was born in 1899, the son of Reverend Alfred William Flux Dundas. He was educated at the
Harrow School, the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and
Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the
Indian Civil Service in 1922 at the age of 23, and remained in the ICS until 1947, when the
independence of Pakistan took place. He served as the last British governor of
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then called the
North-West Frontier Province) of
Pakistan from 1948 to 1949. From 1952 to 1959 he was
Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Prior to his appointment as Lieutenant Governor, Flux Dundas had been general manager of the Bracknell Development Corporation, an eight-member committee administering the construction and development of
Bracknell New Town. He returned to the BDC in 1959, serving as its chairman until 1967. He married Mary Forest Bracewell in 1931. They had one daughter, Anstice Ann Flux Dundas, born 12 December 1933 in
Peshawar. Flux Dundas died on 29 April 1973 at "Roxwell", his house in
Binfield,
Berkshire. __NOTOC__ ==Honours==