Ivan Lloyd-Phillips

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

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)