About Giles Chippindall
Lived 1893 – 1969 (aged 76). Giles Chippindall was an Australian civil servant.
Sir Giles Tatlock Chippindall (21 May 189320 December 1969) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping between 1945 and 1946 and Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department between 1949 and 1958.
Life and career Giles Chippindall was born in Carlton, Melbourne on 21 May 1893. He was educated at state schools in Victoria and Prahran College.
Chippindall joined the Australian Public Service in 1908 as a telegraph messenger in the Postmaster-General's Department.
He was appointed Director-General of the Postmaster General's Department in 1949, serving in the role until his retirement in May 1958. In retirement he was Chairman of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (1961–62) and Australian National Airlines Commission (1959-66). In January 1955, he was honoured as a Knight Bachelor.
His portrait, painted by Lucy Lee, was an Archibald Prize finalist in 1955.
In 1987, a street in the Canberra suburb of Theodore was named Chippindall Circuit in Giles Chippindall's honour.
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Giles Chippindall was born on 21 May 1893 in Melbourne.
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Giles Chippindall died on 20 December 1969 in East Melbourne.
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