Christopher Gilbert Eastwood CMG (21 April 1905 – 14 October 1983) was a member of the

British civil service His Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as His Majesty's Civil Service, the Home Civil Service, or colloquially as the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, which ...

. He was educated at

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, then studied at

Trinity College, Oxford (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) , named_for = The Holy Trinity , established = , sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge , president = Dame Hilary Boulding , location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH , coordinates ...

before joining the civil service in 1927, in the

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. He served as Private Secretary to the

High Commissioner for Palestine The High Commissioner for Palestine was the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in the mandated territories of Palestine and the High Commissioner for Transjordan was the highest ranking authority representing the United King ...

between 1932 and 1934, and was then the Secretary of the International Rubber Regulation Committee. He was

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George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the " Diehard" wing of the party. From 1937 to 1941 he was chairman of the British Council, in which ...

and

Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, DSO & Bar, PC (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944), was an Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assass ...

, who were successively Secretary of State for the Colonies (1940–41). He was Principal Assistant Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 1945 and 1947. Eastwood was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1947. Between 1947 and 1952, and again between 1954 and 1966, he was Assistant

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at the Colonial Office; between 1952 and 1954, he was the Commissioner of Crown Lands. He was a member of the Council of Keble College, Oxford between 1937 and 1952, when the Council was dissolved.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eastwood, Christopher 1905 births 1983 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford British civil servants Civil servants in the Colonial Office Private secretaries in the British Civil Service Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George