Sir Cecil James Juxon Talbot Barton (13 April 1891 – 29 September 1980) known as Sir Juxon Barton, was a British

colonial administrator Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their relig ...

who twice served as

Governor of Fiji Fiji was a British Crown colony from 1874 to 1970, and an independent dominion in the Commonwealth from 1970 to 1987. During this period, the head of state was the British monarch, but in practice his or her functions were normally exercised loca ...

and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. His first term in both roles ran from May to November 1936, and his second from August to September 1938. Born in Ross-on-Wye, he was the eldest child of Robert Cecil Eustace Barton and Amy Isabella Barton. Perhaps his best-known quote is: "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

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, - , - 1891 births 1980 deaths Governors of Fiji High Commissioners for the Western Pacific Members of the Legislative Council of Fiji Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Officers of the Order of the British Empire British people in British Fiji {{Fiji-bio-stub