Ivan Lloyd-Phillips

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 {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)