Dobbs, Henry Adrian Conway (1914–1970), civil servant and philosopher of science

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Dobbs, Henry Adrian Conway (1914–1970), civil servant and philosopher of science

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        Dobbs was born on 19 December 1914, the son of Sir Henry Robert Conway Dobbs (see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) and his wife Agnes Esme, nee Rivaz. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, and joined the Ceylon Civil Service, serving as Private Secretary to the Governor of Ceylon between 1939 and 1945, and he was afterwards Liaison Officer with the Government of Palestine with the UN Committee of Enquiry in 1947, Alternate Commissioner of the UK South Pacific Commission between 1949 and 1950 and between 1951 and 1953, and Private Assistant Secretary to the Governor of the Federation of Malaya between 1954 and 1957. He was also for a time with the Ministry of Defence.

        Between 1945 and 1947 he lectured at Oxford, and he between 1949 and 1950 he held a Colonial Service Travelling Fellowship to the USA.

        He died on 28 April 1970 from choking on a piece of meat while dining at the Army and Navy Club.

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            Burke's Irish Family Records (1976), cited at thepeerage.com
            Ceylon Government Gazette
            , 31 Dec. 1943, p. 647; 29 Sept. 1944, p. 450 Westminster and Pimlico News*, 15 May 1970, p. 7

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