Blackett, Basil P. (Basil Phillott), Sir, 1882-1935

1909-1911 private secretary to the financial secretary; 1911 first clerk, the Treasury; 1913-1914 secretary to the royal commission on Indian finance and currency; 1914 special mission to the US government; 1915 secretary to the capital issues committee; 1915 British Treasury member of the Anglo-French financial mission to the USA; 1915 CB; 1915 KCB; 1916 National War Savings committee; 1917-1919 representative of the British Treasury to the USA; 1919-1922 first controller of finance, the Treasury; 1921 intiated into the freemasons; 1921 KCSI; 1922-1928 finance member of the viceroy's executive council in India; 1929 elected to the court of the Bank of England; 1929 British alternate member of the Young committee on German reparations; 1929 chairman, the colonial development advisory committee; 1929-1932 chairman and director, Imperial and International Communications and Cable and Wireless; 1930 director, De Beers Consolidated Mines; 1931-1932 chairman, political and economic planning; 1932 member of an economic advisory council committee on international economic policy; 1933 grand treasurer of English freemasons.

Epithet: financial administrator

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