Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung

Burmese politician

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1822

Date of Death: 30-Jun-1908

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung C.S.I.
(Burmese: ??????????????? ????????, also spelt U Gaung; 3 February 1822 – 30 June 1908) was a chief minister during the reigns of King Mindon and Thibaw, as well as a colonial civil servant.
He attempted to westernise the Burmese kingdom's existing bureaucracy into a more democratic system.
Because of such attempts to do so, he was accused by many to have allowed Britain to win the Third Anglo-Burmese War.