| 词条 | Selwyn MacGregor Grier |
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He was the eldest child of Richard Macgregor Grier (1835 – 1894), the then rural dean of Rugeley and prebendary of Lichfield, and his wife, Grace Allen.[2] His sister, Lynda Grier, was a British educational administrator, and the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1921 to 1945.[3] He was educated at Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[4] He taught for a year at Berkhamsted School in 1901-02 and at Cheam School from 1902 to 1905. He then joined the Colonial Service and went out to Nigeria as Assistant Resident in Zaria Province in 1906, being later transferred to Bauchi in 1912 and to Ibadan in 1913. From 1921 to 1925 he served as Secretary for Native Affairs and in 1925 was appointed Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. He was one of the founding fathers of Government College, Ibadan. In 1929 he was transferred to the Caribbean as Colonial Secretary for Trinidad and Tobago. In 1935 he was appointed Governor of the Windward Islands but obliged to resign in 1937 due to blindness. He was awarded the CMG in 1929, made a Knight Bachelor in 1934 and upgraded to KCMG in 1936.[5][6] Grier returned to England and died in Surrey on the 8 November 1946. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp80797/sir-selwyn-macgregor-grier |title=Sir Selwyn MacGregor Grier - Person - National Portrait Gallery |website=Npg.org.uk |date=2016-12-26 |accessdate=2017-01-14}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Grier, Selwyn MacGregor}}2. ^{{cite web|title=Grier, (Mary) Lynda Dorothea (1880–1967)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48438|website=ODNB|accessdate=14 January 2017}} 3. ^{{cite web|author=Rita McWilliams Tullberg |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/48438 |title=Grier, (Mary) Lynda Dorothea (1880-1967), educational administrator : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - oi |website=Oxfordindex.oup.com |date= |accessdate=2017-01-14}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/grier-sm.html|title=Collection Level Description: Papers of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier|publisher=Bodlien Library|accessdate=17 July 2017}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue = 34010|supp=y|page=3|date=29 December 1933}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=34296|supp=y|page= 3999|date=19 June 1936}} 12 : 1878 births|1946 deaths|People from Rugeley|People educated at Marlborough College|Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge|Governors of the Windward Islands|Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George|Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|Knights Bachelor|People of colonial Nigeria|British expatriates in Nigeria|Founders of Nigerian schools and colleges |
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