SIR PATRICK DUFF TO RETURN HOME
Successor Is To Be Named Soon Sir Patrick Duff, who was appointed High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand in 1945, will shortly be returning to England on completion of four years in
that post. An announcement of Sir Patrick Duff's successor is expected before long. Sir Patrick Duff was born in 1889, He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at Balliol College, Oxford He entered the Board of Trade by open competition in 1912. Serving in World War/1, he was wounded and was mentioned in dispatches twice. From 1919 to 1923 he was private secretary to successive presidents of the Board of Trade and from then to 1933 was private secretary to successive Prime Ministers, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, the Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay Macdonald From 1933 to 1941 he was secretary of the Ministry of Works and Public Buildings. He was deputy-High Commissioner in Canada from 1941 to 1944.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 14 April 1949, Page 4
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