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COLONIAL SECRETARY, HONG KONG
MR. J.F. NICOLL AF: CINTED
It is announced by Lord Listowel, Minister of State for Colonial
Affairs, that Mr. John Fearns Nicoll, C.M.G., has been selected for appoint-
ment as Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, in succession to Mr. D.M. MacDougall,
C.. G., who is retiring.
COLONIAL OFFICE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT,
Colonial Office,
Sanctuary Buildings,
Great Smith Street,
S.1.1.
Tel. EHI 2366 Exts. 526 and 527.
April 13, 1949
Ar. Nicoll was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, in April, 1899, and was
educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He
served as an administrative officer in North Borneo from 1920 until 1925
when he was appointed to the Colonial Administrative Service in Tanganyika.
He was transferred to Trinidad in 1928, and in 1938, was promoted to be
He was appointed to his present
Deputy Colonial Secretary of Trinidad.
post in 1944.7