Ivan Lloyd-Phillips Explained

Ivan Lloyd-Phillips CBE (June 1910  - 14 January 1984) was a British national who served in the Colonial Administrative Service. He was the son of Arthur Lloyd-Phillips, Vicar of Ware.

Appointments

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).

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)