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Biographical Notes Arden-Oarke, Charles N. (1898-1962). Kt 1946; GCMG 1952; entered Colonial Administrative Service 1920; Administrative Officer Northern Nigeria 1920-33; Acting Principal Assistant Secretary, Nigerian Secretariat 1934-6; Assistant Resident Com- missioner and Government Secretary, Bechuanaland Protect- orate 1936, and Resident Commissioner 1937-42; Resident Com- missioner Basutoland 1942-6; Governor and Commander in Chief, Sarawak 1946-9, Gold Coast 1949-57; First Governor- General and Commander in Chief Ghana March-July 1957; member Monckton Commission 1960. Baring, Evelyn (1903-73). 1st Baron Howick of Glendale 1960; KCVO 1947; GCMG 1955; KG 1972; entered Indian Civil Service 1926; Secretary to Agent of Government of India in South Africa 1929-34; Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1942-4; High Commis- sioner for the UK and High Commission Territories, Union of South Africa 1944-51; Governor of Kenya and Chairman East African High Commission 1952-9; Deputy-Chairman, then Chairman, Colonial Development Corporation 1960-3; Chair- man, Commonwealth Development Corporation 1963-72. Bates, William Stanley (b. 1920). Assistant Principal Colonial Office 1948; Principal 1951; on loan to Commonwealth Relations Office 1954, transferred 1956; Office of the UK High Commis- sioner Australia 1956-9; Assistant Secretary seconded to Central African Office 1962; Deputy High Commissioner Kaduna 1963-5; Head Communications Department Foreign and Common- wealth Office 1967-70; UK High Commissioner Guyana 1970-5. Baxter, George H. (1894-1962). Entered India Office 1920; Financial Secretary 1933-43; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for India 1943-7, and for Commonwealth Relations 1947-55; Chairman Conference on Closer Association in Central Africa March 1951; visited Central Africa for Victoria Falls Conference September 1951. Brook, Norman C. (1902-67). 1st Baron Normanbrook 1963; KCB 1946; entered Home Office 1925; Assistant Secretary 1938; prin- cipal private secretary to Sir John Anderson when Lord Privy Seal 1938-9, and Home Secretary 1939-40; Principal Assistant Secretary 1940; personal assistant to Anderson when Lord President 1940-2; Deputy Secretary (Civil) to War Cabinet 1942; Permanent Secretary Ministry of Reconstruction 1943-5; Addi- 575 576 Biographical Notes tional Secretary to Cabinet 1945--6; Secretary to Cabinet 1947--62; Joint Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service 1956-62. Butler, Richard Austen (1902-82). Baron (life peer) 1965; KG 1971; CH 1954; fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1925-9; MP (Con.) 1929--65; Under Secretary of State India Office 1932-7; member, Indian Franchise Committee 1932; Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Labour 1937-8; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1938-41; Minister of Education 1941-5; Minister of Labour June-July 1945; Chancellor of Exchequer 1951-5; Lord Privy Seal 1955-9; Leader House of Commons 1955--61; Home Secretary 1957--62; First Secretary of State, Deputy Prime M\nis- ter and Minister in charge Central African Office July 1962- October 1963; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1963-4; chairman, Conservative Research Department 1945--64, Con- servative Party's Advisory Committee on Policy 1950--64, Con- servative Party Organization 1959--6l. Castle, Barbara (Anne) (b. 1910). Member, St Pancras Borough Council 1937; Administrative Officer, Ministry of Food 1941-4; MP (Lab.) Blackburn 1945-50, Blackburn East 1950-5, Blackburn 1955-79; Member, National Executive Council, Labour Party 1950-; Chairman, Labour Party 1958-9; Minister of Overseas Development 1964-5, of Transport 1965-8; Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity 1968-70, for Social Services 1974- 6; Member (Lab.) European Parliament since 1979. Cherwell, Lord. See Lindemann. Churchill, Winston L. S. (1874-1965). KG 1953; MP (Con.) 1900-4, (Lib.) 1904-18, (Coalition Lib.) 1918-22, (Constitutionalist) 1924- 31, (Con.) 1931--64; Under-Secretary of State Colonies 1906-8; President Board of Trade 1908-10; Home Secretary 1910-11; First Lord of Admiralty 1911-15; Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster 1915; Minister of Munitions 1917; Secretary of State for War and Air January 1919-February 1921, Air and Colonies February-April 1921, and for Colonies until October 1922; Chancellor of Exche- quer 1924-9; First Lord of Admiralty 1939-40; Prime Minister and Minister of Defence 1940-5; Leader of Opposition 1945-51; Prime Minister October 1951-Apri11955 (resigned) and Minister of Defence October 1951-January 1952. Clark, W. Arthur W. (1908-67). KCMG 1961; District Officer Kenya 1931; Assistant Secretary Kenya 1937; seconded to Dominions Office 1939; Private Secretary to Attlee and Cranborne 1942-5; Chief Secretary Central African Council 1945-8, and to High Commissioner for the High Commission Territories 1949-50; Commonwealth Relations Office, 1950, and Assistant Under- Secretary of State 1954--6, 1958--60; Deputy High Commissioner Biographical Notes 577 for UK in Delhi 1956-8; UK Representative in Cyprus 1960-1; British High Commissioner in the Cyprus Republic 1961-4. Cohen, Andrew B. (1909-68). KCMG 1952; transferred from Board of Inland Revenue to Colonial Office 1933; served in Malta 1940-3; Assistant Secretary 1943; Assistant Under-Secretary of State and head Africa division 1947; Governor of Uganda 1952-7; Permanent British Representative UN Trusteeship Council 1957- 61; Director-General Department of Technical Co-operation, London 1961-4; Permanent Secretary Ministry of Overseas De- velopment 1964-8. Cumming-Bruce, Francis E. Hovell-Thurlow (b. 1912). KCMG 1961; 8th Baron Thurlow 1971; entered Department of Agricul- ture for Scotland 1935; transferred to Dominions Office 1937; principal private secretary to Secretary of State 1946; Assistant Secretary 1948; served in New Delhi 1949-52; Adviser on Exter- nal Affairs to Governor of Gold Coast 1955; Deputy High Commissioner Ghana 1957; Assistant Under-Secretary Com- monwealth Relations Office 1958; Deputy High Commissioner Canada 1958; High Commissioner, New Zealand 1959-63, Niger- ia 1964-7; Deputy Under-Secretary Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968; Governor, Bahamas 1968-72; Chairman, Institute for Comparative Study of History, Philosophy and the Sciences 1974-80. Drake, Antony Elliot (b. 1907). Indian Civil Service 1930-47; Treasury 1947; Assistant Secretary 1950; on loan to UK Atomic Energy Authority, as Principal Finance Officer 1957-60; transfer- red to Atomic Energy Authority 1960-9. Duncan-Sandys, Duncan E. (1908-87). Baron (life peer) 1974; diplomatic service 1930; MP (Con.) 1935-45, 1950-74; Parliamen- tary Secretary Ministry of Supply 1943-4; Minister of Works 1944-5; founded European Movement 1947, and active Europeanist thereafter; Minister of Supply 1951-4; Minister of Housing and Local Government 1954-7; Minister of Defence January 1957-0ctober 1959; Minister of Aviation 1959-60; Secret- ary of State for Commonwealth Relations July 1960-0ctober 1964, and Secretary of State for Colonies July 1962-October 1964. Eden, R. Anthony (1897-1977). 1st Earl of Avon 1961; KG 1954; MP (Con.) 1923-57; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State Foreign Affairs 1926-9; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1931-3; Lord Privy Seal 1934-5; Minister without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs 1935; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1935-8, for Dominion Affairs 1939-40, for War 1940, for Foreign Affairs 1940-5, and Leader of House of Commons 1942-5; Deputy Leader of Opposition 1945-51; Secret- ary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister 578 Biographical Notes 1951-April 1955; Chairman OEEC 1952-4; Prime Minister April 1955-January 1957. Field, Winston J. (1904-69). Born Worcestershire; went to South- ern Rhodesia 1921; farmer and President Rhodesian Tobacco Association 1938-40; Member Federal Parliament of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1957-62 and Leader of the Opposition 1958-62; Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and Minister of the Public Service 1962-4; MP and President Rhodesian Front Party 1962-5. Flett, Martin T. (b. 1911). KCB 1965; Dominions Office 1933; Treasury 1934; War Cabinet Office, Ministry of Reconstruction, and Lord President's Office 1944-6; Under Secretary Treasury 1949-56; Alternate UK Director of International Bank and Finan- cial Counsellor, British Embassy Washington 1953-6; Deputy Secretary Ministry of Power 1956-61; Deputy Under-Secretary of State Air Ministry 1961-3; Permanent Under-Secretary of State at Air Ministry (1963-4), RAP (1964--8), Equipment (1968--71) Minis- try of Defence. Fowler, Robert W. D. (b. 1914). Assistant Commissioner Burma Civil Service 1937; Defence Department Govt of Burma 1941-3; Civil Affairs Section Burma 1944; Senior Civil Affairs Officer and Deputy Commissioner 1945; Additional Secretary to Governor of Burma 1947; retired Burma 1948; Principal Commonwealth Rela- tions Office 1948; Assistant Secretary 1952; member UK Delega- tion to United Nations in New York 1951-3; Deputy High Commissioner Karachi 1956-8, Ottawa 1960-2, Lagos 1962-4; High Commissioner United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzi- bar 1964. Gamer, Joseph J. Saville (1908--83). Baron (life peer) cr. 1969; KCMG 1954; entered Dominions Office 1930; private secretary to successive Secretaries of State; served in High Commission Canada 1943-8; Assistant Under-Secretary Commonwealth Rela- tions Office 1948--51; Deputy High Commissioner India 1951-3; Deputy Under-Secretary CRO 1952-6; High Commissioner Canada 1956-61; Permanent Under-Secretary Commonwealth Relations