Sir William Cecil Bottomley

Sir William Cecil Bottomley (1878-1954) was educated Tettenhall College; Owens College, Manchester; and Trinity College, Cambridge. His career in the Colonial Office began in 1901 when he was appointed (after competition exam) to the post of 2nd class clerk.

In 1905 he began the first of his secretaryships when he was appointed as secretary to the Colonial Survey Committee. He subsequently held the posts of secretary to the Inter-Departmental Pensions Committee (1907); assistant private secretary to Lord Crewe (1908); and private secretary to Sir F. Hopwood (1909), Colonel Seely (1911), Lord Lucas (1911), and Lord Emmott (1911).

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