Selwyn College, Cambridge;
Balliol College, Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy).
A Lloyd-Phillips. 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’ General’ s Office (1951–1952). Deputy 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). 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).
Quotations: 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).