The Years of Hope Philip Snow

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Zusammenfassung

This is a record of British experience in the colonies, demonstrated through the memoirs of Philip Snow, who left England for Fiji in 1938 to pursue a Colonial Service career. Overshadowing all is the theme of racial harmony, mutual tolerance and distant respect which informed Snow's life.

The Years of Hope Zusammenfassung

The Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket Philip Snow

After Cambridge, in 1938, Philip Snow left the first-class cricket field and sailed halfway around the world to pursue a Colonial Service career. His work in Fiji could hardly have been more varied: Commissioner, Magistrate, Officer-in-Charge-of-Police, Superintendent of Gaols, Reciever of Wrecks and Colonial Secretary. He was joined by his fiancee, just before the exotic setting was shattered by the Pacific War. After Pearl Harbor and the fall of Singapore, Fiji was virtually surrounded by the Japanese. Philip Snow was Government Liaison Officer during this critical period. The presence of C.P. Snow, his elder brother, exerted a powerful influence on Philip's life during this time. This is a record of the flavour of British experience in the colonies. Overshadowing all is the theme of racial harmony, mutual tolerance and distant respect which informed Snow's life.

Über Philip Snow

Philip Snow, the youngest of four brothers (one of whom became Lord Snow of Leicester), was born and went to school in Leicester before going up to Cambridge. For 14 years he served in the Colonial Administrative Service as Magistrate and Provincial Commissioner; these were just two of a remarkable variety of posts including Receiver of Wrecks and Deputy Sheriff, in Fiji and the South Pacific. He captained the national Fiji cricket team on the first-class tour of New Zealand in 1948. An elected Honorary Life member of the MCC, he was the doyen of the 30 members of the International Cricket Council, having served continuously as Permanent Representative of Fiji from 1965 until his retirement 30 years later. Appointed MBE in 1979 and promoted to OBE in 1985, he is retired in Sussex. Philip Snow maintains close contacts with the South Seas and was awarded the Fiji Independence Silver Jubilee Medal in 1995.

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Sku

GOR006245757

ISBN 13

9781860641473

ISBN 10

1860641474

Titel

The Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket Philip Snow

Autor

Philip Snow

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Bindung

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Verlag

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Datum

1997-12-31

Anzahl der Seiten

256

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