Frederick Phillips (civil servant)

Sir Frederick Phillips (18 December 1884 – 14 August 1943) was a British civil servant and expert on international finance. He was Deputy Controller (1931) and Permanent Under-Secretary (1932-9) at the UK Treasury. At the Ottawa Conference in 1932, on new economic arrangements within the British Empire he was the government's chief expert. He was knighted (KCMG) in 1933.

He was Chairman of the Financial Committee of the League of Nations[1] and the head of the British Treasury Mission in Washington D.C. during the Second World War.[2]

Early Life

He was the son of a London school-master. He was educated at Aske's School at New Cross before going on to Cambridge University where he had a brilliant career.[3]

Death

He died suddenly in University College Hospital London having recently returned by plane from Washington.[4]

References

  1. ^ Moggridge, Donald; Johnson, Elizabeth; Keynes, John Maynard, eds. (1978), "FREDERICK PHILLIPS", The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Volume 10: Essays in Biography, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, vol. 10, Royal Economic Society, pp. 330–332, doi:10.1017/UPO9781139524230.034, ISBN 978-1-139-52423-0, retrieved 2022-11-18
  2. ^ Peden, G. C. (2004). "Phillips, Sir Frederick (1884–1943), civil servant". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74786. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2022-11-18. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Obituary - Sir Frederick Phillips". The Birmingham Post. 17 August 1943. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Obituary - Sir Frederick Phillips". The Manchester Guardian. 16 August 1943. p. 6.
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