Ivan Lloyd Phillips (1910-1984) started work in the Colonial Administrative Service in 1934, when he was posted to the Gold Coast, first as a cadet and later as Assistant District Commissioner. He then served in Palestine, 1938-1947, as Assistant and Acting District Commissioner. He was in the King David Hotel, Jerusalem when the bomb planted by Jewish terrorists exploded on 22nd July 1946, though he escaped unhurt. He was posted to the Colonial Office, 1947-1948, then to Cyprus, 1948-1951, where he served in the Secretariat and as a District Commissioner. From 1951 to 1953, he worked in Singapore, as Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Commissioner-General for South East Asia, then as Secretary to the Minister for Home Affairs and finally to the Minister for the Interior, Malaya, 1953-1962. After his retirement, he became Secretary of the Oxford Preservation Trust, 1962-1965, and was Assistant Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford University, 1965-1970. He was awarded the CBE in 1963 and the Order of the Defence of the Realm, Malaysia in 1959. In 1941 he married Faith Macleay, with whom he had one son.

Letters written home while on service in the Gold Coast, Palestine, Cyprus and Malaya, 1934-1959, with related appointment diaries, photographs, letters and papers, 1931-1984.

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Listed as no. 592 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996). A handlist is also available in the library reading room.

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with Malcolm John MacDonald, conducted by Ivan Lloyd Phillips and others, 1970-1974, relating to his service as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and for the Colonies, 1935-1940, and later in Kenya and Malaya (ref. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 533). A French map of Cyprus, 1862, donated by Ivan Lloyd Phillips in May 1965, is held by the Bodleian Library.

Lloyd Phillips | Ivan | 1910-1984 | colonial administrator

Great Britain | Colonies | Administration

Mandates | Palestine

Palestine | History | 1917-1948

Ghana | History | To 1957

Cyprus | History | British rule, 1878-1960

Malaysia | History | 20th century