Ernest Symons

Ernest Symons

Ernest Vize Symons (19 June 1913 – 5 November 1990) was a British Civil Servant who became Director General of the Board of Inland Revenue.

He was educated at the Stationers' Company School and University College London (UCL), serving on the UCL Council in 1975 and becoming a fellow of UCL in 1979.

He became an Assistant Inspector of Taxes in 1934. He was a Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, 1964-1973, Chief Inspector of Taxes until 1975 then Director General until his retirement in 1977. In 1975 he was made a Companion of the Bath.

He was Honorary Treasurer of the National Association for the Care of Offenders in 1979. From 1978, he was on the council of the London Welsh Trust (Vice-Chairman, 1981-1985). He was Honorary Treasurer of the Honorable Society of Cymmrodorion from 1980. He was a governor of the English-Speaking Union from 1978 and its deputy chairman from 1983 to 1986.

His daughter is Elizabeth Symons (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dene).

Sources

*"Who Was Who", personal knowledge.


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