Kenneth Maddocks
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Sir Kenneth Phipson Maddocks GCMG KCVO |
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| 20th Governor of Fiji | |
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In office 28 October 1958 – 6 January 1964 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir Ronald Garvey |
| Succeeded by | Sir Derek Jakeway |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 February 1907 Haywards Heath, Sussex |
| Died | 28 August 2001 (aged 94) Aldeburgh, Suffolk |
| Citizenship | British |
| Spouse(s) | Elnor Russell 1951-1976 (her death); Patricia Mooring m. 1980 |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
Sir Kenneth Maddocks, GCMG KCVO (8 February 1907 – 2001) was a British colonial official, who served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji from 1958 until 1963.
Kenneth Phipson Maddocks was the son of a civil engineer from Coventry. He had relatives in government service scattered across India, Egypt, Canada, and Australia. His mother died of influenza in 1918. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Physics and rowed for his college.
He joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1929 and was sent to northern Nigeria, for which he had expressed a preference, following in the footsteps of a brother who had joined the new Tanganyika Territory Service.
After barely a year in Kano Province, a district whose administration exemplified the British policy of indirect rule, he suddenly found himself posted to the "punishment" province of Benue - for seven years. There he became one of the few district officers to learn Tiv. But he never served in the Tiv language region again.
His next posting was to the relative comforts of Jos and the Plateau. Retained in the Nigerian service throughout World War II - against his wishes and despite the success of many of his colleagues in joining the Royal West African Frontier Force - he spent four years in the Lagos Secretariat.
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