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Guy Fleetwood Wilson
Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson (also Fleetwood-Wilson; 21 October 1850 – 24 December 1940) was a British public servant. A finance specialist, he spent the bulk of his career in the War Office, before serving as Finance Member of the Viceroy's Council in India. Fleetwood Wilson was born and raised in Florence, Italy, where he was known as Guido, a name that stuck with him throughout his life. He was the son of Captain Thomas Hugh Fleetwood Wilson of the 8th Hussars, who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Barbados, and Harriet Horatia Walker, daughter of Capt. Charles Montagu Walker of the Royal Naval. He joined the Home Civil Service as a clerk in the Postmaster General's Department in 1870, then became private secretary to Sir Charles Wilson in Egypt in 1876. Transferring to the War Office in 1883, he was private secretary to several Secretaries of State, and became the first director-general of army finance in 1904. In 1907, he went to India as finance member of the cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Servant
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil servant, also known as a public servant, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency for public sector undertakings. Civil servants work for central and state governments, and answer to the government, not a political party. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom (UK), for instance, only Crown (national government) employees are referred to as "civil servants" whereas employees of local authorities (counties, cities and similar administrations) are generally referred to as "local government civil service officers", who are considered public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
