Account by Henry Townsend Bourdillon of his service at the Colonial Office 1954-1959

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Account by Henry Townsend Bourdillon of his service at the Colonial Office 1954-1959

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb162-mss.brit.emp.s.462

17 ff.

eng,

The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

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Bourdillon Henry Townsend 1913-1991

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Great Britain Colonial Office Officials and employees

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Henry Townsend Bourdillon

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Henry Townsend Bourdillon (1913-1991), CMG (1952), was educated at Rugby School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1937 he was appointed assistant principal at the Colonial Office; he became acting principal in 1940. For a short period during the early 1940s, Bourdillon was lent to the Foreign Office (1942), the Cabinet Office (1943), and the Ministry of Production (1944). He returned to the Colonial Office in 1944 where he later held the posts of assistant secretary (1947-1954) and assista...