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

Zona de identificação

Tipo de entidade

Pessoa singular

Forma autorizada do nome

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

Forma(s) paralela(s) de nome

    Formas normalizadas do nome de acordo com outras regras

      Outra(s) forma(s) de nome

        identificadores para entidades coletivas

        Área de descrição

        Datas de existência

        1914–1970

        Histórico

        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.

        Locais

        Estado Legal

        Funções, ocupações e atividades

        Mandatos/fontes de autoridade

        Estruturas internas/genealogia

        Contexto geral

        Área de relacionamentos

        Área de pontos de acesso

        Pontos de acesso - Assuntos

        Pontos de acesso - Locais

        Ocupações

        Zona do controlo

        Identificador de autoridade arquivística de documentos

        Identificador da instituição

        Regras ou convenções utilizadas

        Estatuto

        Nível de detalhe

        Datas de criação, revisão ou eliminação

        Línguas e escritas

          Script(s)

            Fontes

            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

            Notas de manutenção