Answer the following question: Facts: - successor: sao shwe thaik -lrb- as president -rrb- - death date: 1974 1898 y - predecessor: charles alexander innes - office: last governor of burma - term end: 4 january 1948 - term start: 31 august 1946 - birth date: 1898 - name: hubert elvin rance - nationality: british - occupation: administrator Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hubert rance .
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major general sir hubert elvin rance gcmg gbe cb -lrb- 1898 -- 1974 -rrb- was the last british governor of burma -lrb- myanmar -rrb- between 1946 and 1948 , during the transition from japanese to british colonial administration .later he became governor of trinidad and tobago .