Tin Tut

{{Short description|Burmese politician (1895–1948)}}

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{{Family name hatnote|Tin Tut|lang=Burmese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Tin Tut

| native_name = {{lang|my|တင်ထွဋ်}}

| honorific-suffix = CBE

| image = Tin Tut.JPG

| office = 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs

| primeminister = U Nu

| term_start = 4 January 1948

| term_end = 16 August 1948{{cite book |last=ဦးသောင်း |first=ကြေးမုံ |author-link= |date=1971 |title=ဗမာ့ခေတ်မှ ကြေးမုံသို့ |url= |location=ရန်ကုန် |publisher=ပုဂံစာအုပ်တိုက် |page=၈၉ |isbn=}}

| predecessor = Office established

| successor = Kyaw Nyein

| office2 = Minister of Finance

| primeminister2 = Aung San

| term_start2 = 28 September 1946

| term_end2 = 10 June 1947

| predecessor2 = Office established

| successor2 = Thakin Mya

| office3 = Minister of Finance

| primeminister3 = Aung San

| term_start3 = 19 July 1947

| term_end3 = 4 January 1948

| predecessor3 = Thakin Mya

| successor3 = U Tin

| office4 = Chancellor of University of Rangoon

| term_start4 = 1939

| term_end4 = 1942

| predecessor4 =

| successor4 =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|2|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rangoon, British Burma

| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|9|18|1895|2|1|df=yes}}

| death_place = Rangoon, Burma

| party = AFPFL

| spouse =

| relations = Htin Aung, Myint Thein and Kyaw Myint

| alma_mater = University of Cambridge

| profession =

| caption = Tin Tut in 1947

}}

Tin Tut, CBE ({{langx|my|တင်ထွဋ်}}, {{IPA|my|tɪ̀ɰ̃ tʰʊʔ|pron}}; also spelt Tin Htut; 1 February 1895 – 18 September 1948) was the 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Burma, and the Minister of Finance in Aung San's pre-independence government.{{Cite web|url=https://lostfootsteps.org/en/history/u-tin-tut-one-of-the-most-important-figures-in-modern-burmese-history|title=U Tin Tut, one of the most important figures in modern Burmese history|website=lostfootsteps.org}}

Educated at Dulwich and Queens' College, Cambridge, Tin Tut was the first Burmese to become an Indian Civil Service officer. He was Prime Minister Aung San's deputy in the government.{{cite book | title=The River of Lost Footsteps--Histories of Burma | page=252 | author=Thant Myint-U | year=2006 | publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux | isbn=978-0-374-16342-6}} However, he was not present in the cabinet meeting on 19 July 1947. On that day, assassination that claimed the lives of Aung San and six other cabinet ministers occurred.{{cite book | title=A History of Burma | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofburma00htin | url-access=registration | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=New York and London | year=1967 | author=Maung Htin Aung | author-link=Htin Aung | page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofburma00htin/page/308 308]}}

He was mortally wounded when a bomb exploded in his car on Sparks Street on 18 September 1948. He died shortly after in Rangoon General Hospital.

A close adviser of Aung San, he was instrumental in negotiations for Burma's independence including Panglong and Nu-Attlee agreements. Historian Thant Myint-U called him "the brightest Burmese officer of his generation".