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Birth GRO 3rd qtr 1910
PHILLIPS, Ivan L Chesterton 3b 381
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England and Wales Death Registration Index
Name Ivan Lloyd Phillips
Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year 1984
Registration District Bullingdon
County Oxfordshire
Event Place Bullingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Birth Date 25 Jun 1910
Volume 20
Page 2399
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Served in the Colonial Administrative Service
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First appointed to the Colonial Service in 1934, with appointments to:
Gold Coast (1934–1938);
Palestine (1938–1947);
District Commissioner of Gaza-Beersheba (1946–1947);
Colonial Office (1947–1948);
Cyprus (1948–1951);
Commissioner, Nicosia-Kyrenia (1950–1951);
Singapore (1951–1953);
Commissioner-General’s Office (1951–1952);
Dep. Secretary for Defence (1952–1953);
Malaya (1953–1962);
Secretary to Chief Minister and Minister for Home Affairs (1955–1957);
Secretary, Ministry of the Interior (1957–1962).

Later roles:
Deputy Director, Oxford Colonial Records Project, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of Oxford, (1965–1970).

Honours
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE; 1959)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE; 1963)

Education
Selwyn College, Cambridge;
Balliol College, Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy {DPhil}).

Quotes
What a fantastic mess we are all in, and how different the world would have been if only Hitler had gone to Balliol! (written to his father from Jerusalem in October 1939)