Sir Edmund Phipps
British civil servant, Deputy Secretary on the Board of Education
About Sir Edmund Phipps
Lived 1869 – 1947 (aged 77–78). Sir Edmund Phipps was a civil servant.
Sir Edmund Bampfylde Phipps (1869–1947) was a British senior civil servant.
Phipps was the son of Ramsay Weston Phipps and Anne Bampfylde. He was educated at New College, Oxford. Phipps was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath while Principal Assistant Secretary at the Board of Education in 1916. He was made a knight bachelor in the 1918 New Year Honours in recognition of his role as General Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions from 1916 to 1917 during the First World War.
He was photographed by Walter Stoneman in May 1940; the portrait is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. He was the father of Nicholas Phipps.
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British civil servant, Deputy Secretary on the Board of Education
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Sir Edmund Phipps was born in 1869.
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Sir Edmund Phipps died in 1947.
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Sir Edmund Phipps was a civil servant.
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