Sir Alfred Edward Faulkner, CB,

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(3 July 1882 – 15 July 1963) was a British civil servant.

Career

He was born in

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, the son of a grocer and was awarded a foundation

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to St Albans School in 1894. When he left school, he was appointed a boy copyist in the civil service. He was appointed as a supernumary clerk in the second division (known as a Ridley clerk ) in civil service in 1901. He was assigned to the

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.Sir Alfred Faulkner, Memoir of his life, in possession of his descendants. and obtained a substantive post in 1908, and appointment as an assistant transport clerk in 1910. Following the

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in 1911, he worked under

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on the plans for getting the British Expeditionary Force to France in the event of war. The result of their work was that in the British Expeditionary Force was speedily deployed to France after

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broke out. Like Thomson he moved to the Ministry of Shipping on its formation. In the 1920s, he was successively Director of Sea Transport at the Board of Trade, Under-Secretary for Mines, and Under-Secretary for Petroleum. Following his formal retirement, he served as director of producer gas vehicles and then Transport Commissioner for the Eastern Region. He died in

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in July 1963 at the age of 81.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faulkner, Alfred Edward 1882 births 1963 deaths British civil servants People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire