12 Facts About Kenneth Maddocks

Kenneth Phipson Maddocks was the son of a civil engineer from Coventry.

Kenneth Maddocks had relatives in government service scattered across India, Egypt, Canada, and Australia.

Kenneth Maddocks was educated at Bromsgrove School and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Physics and rowed for his college.

Kenneth Maddocks joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1929 and was sent to northern Nigeria, for which he had expressed a preference, following in the footsteps of a brother who had joined the new Tanganyika Territory Service.

Kenneth Maddocks's next posting was to the relative comforts of Jos and the Plateau.

Kenneth Maddocks became Deputy Governor in 1957, with spells in between as Officer Administering the Government of Northern Nigeria.

Kenneth Maddocks's governorship was marked by industrial disputes which led him to invoke his emergency powers and call in the military in support of the civil power.

Kenneth Maddocks's health gave way, both in Suva and, en route home, in Venice.

Kenneth Maddocks was awarded the title of Companion of St Michael and St George in 1956 and advanced to Knight Commander of St Michael and St George in 1958.

Kenneth Maddocks was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1963 at the time of the Queen's visit to the Pacific.

Kenneth Maddocks had no children of his own, but had a large extended family who called him Uncle or Grandpa.

Kenneth Maddocks was an enthusiastic gardener, a hobby he continued on his return to Britain, where he lived first in Somerset and then in Suffolk.