Ratu Julian Nasaroa Brown Toganivalu (1932 – 5 December 1977) was a

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an chief, civil servant and politician. He was a member of the

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for three days in 1977.

Biography

Toganivalu was the son of

George Toganivalu Ratu George Toganivalu (died 17 June 1951) was a Fijian chief and politician. He was Roko Tui of Bua and Ba, and a member of the Legislative Council between 1940 and 1951. Biography During World War I he joined the Māori Battalion and serv ...

, a member of the Legislative Council. He enlisted in the Fijian Military Forces and at the age of 19 he became the first Fijian to attend the

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is one of several military academies of the United Kingdom and is the British Army's initial officer training centre. It is located in the town of ...

. He later worked as a civil servant and was seconded to

Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

, where he was appointed chief executive of the Local Government Council.Fijian MP's sudden death
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', January 1978, p6 In 1968 Toganivalu resigned from the civil service to join the Indo-Fijian-dominated

Federation Party The Federation Party was Fiji's first formal political party. The Citizens Federation, which had won three of the four seats reserved for Indo-Fijians at the 1963 elections, decided to formalize its role as a political party, which was officia ...

, becoming its organising secretary. He subsequently became a member of its successor, the

National Federation Party The National Federation Party is a Fijian political party founded by A. D. Patel, A.D. Patel in November 1968, as a merger of the Federation Party and the National Democratic Party (Fiji, 1960s), National Democratic Party. Though it claimed to ...

, Toganivalu was elected to the

as a member of the

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faction of the party in the September 1977 elections. He was proposed as Leader of the Opposition by

K. C. Ramrakha Karam Chand Ramrakha (18 March 1933 – 17 April 2021) was a former Indians in Fiji, Fiji Indian lawyer, union leader and politician, who served in colonial Fiji's Legislative Council of Fiji, Legislative Council and independent Fiji's House of R ...

, but

Jai Ram Reddy Jai Ram Reddy, CF (12 May 1937 – 29 August 2022) was an Indo-Fijian politician, who had a distinguished career in both the legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government. In 1998, he received Fiji's highest honour, the Companion ...

was appointed instead. He died in December the same year only three days after being sworn into office.''Islands Business'', Volume 15, Issues 1–11, p128

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Toganivalu, Julian 1932 births Fijian chiefs Fijian soldiers Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Fijian civil servants Fijian expatriates in Nauru Members of the House of Representatives (Fiji) National Federation Party politicians 1977 deaths