Ivan Lloyd-Phillips

Dr Ivan Lloyd-Phillips (1910–1984) was a British national who served in the Colonial Administrative Service.Born June 1910, son of Revd. A Lloyd-Phillips. Died 14 January 1984.

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

* OBE (1959)
* CBE (1963)

Education

* Selwyn College, Cambridge;
* Balliol College, Oxford (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)