Ernest Symons

Ernest Vize Symons CB (19 June 1913 – 5 November 1990) was a British

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who became Director General of the Board of

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. He was educated at the

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and

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(UCL), serving on the UCL Council in 1975 and becoming a fellow of UCL in 1979. He became an Assistant Inspector of Taxes in 1934. He was a Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, 1964-1973, Chief Inspector of Taxes until 1975 then Director General until his retirement in 1977. In 1975, he was made a

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. He was Honorary Treasurer of the

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in 1979. From 1978, he was on the council of the

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(Vice-Chairman, 1981-1985). He was Honorary Treasurer of the

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from 1980. He was a governor of the

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from 1978 and its deputy chairman from 1983 to 1986. His daughter is

Elizabeth Symons Elizabeth Conway Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (born 14 April 1951) is a British politician and trade unionist. A member of the Labour Party, she was Minister of State for the Middle East from 2001 to 2005. She is former General Secr ...

(Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean). {{DEFAULTSORT:Symons, Ernest 1913 births 1990 deaths Alumni of University College London Civil servants in the Board of Inland Revenue Companions of the Order of the Bath People educated at the Stationers' Company's School