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THE appointment is announced of Sir Frank Stockdale, who has been agricultural adviser to the Colonial Secretary since 1930, to be Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies. Sir Frank's departure from the Colonial Office will be felt by the many officers in the agricultural services of the Empire with whom he was on terms of personal intimacy and by all who had learnt to value his wide knowledge of the science and practice of tropical agriculture. He is returning to the scene of his early labours, for in 1905 he was mycologist to the West Indian Department of Agriculture. Afterwards he served as assistant director of science and agriculture in British Guiana, and as director of agriculture in Mauritius and in Ceylon. He held the latter post until 1929, when the then Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby Gore, selected him as agricultural adviser to strengthen the liaison between the rapidly developing scientific branches of colonial agriculture and the administration in Whitehall. He fulfilled this function brilliantly, and the very active interest now shown by the Colonial Office in promoting scientific agriculture in the territories under its jurisdiction is largely a consequence of his work. He was knighted in 1937.
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Sir Frank Stockdale, K.C.M.G., C.B.E. Nature 146, 425–426 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146425d0
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