He rewarded his patron (by then Colonial Secretary) by illustrating parts of the latter's descriptive book about the island, Ceylon, Physical, Historical and Topographical.
Evatt served in the governments of William McKell, James McGirr and Joseph Cahill as Minister for Education (1941–1944), Minister for Tourism (1946–1947), Minister for Housing (1947–1950 and 1952–1954) and Colonial Secretary (1950–1952).
Chief Secretary, originally Colonial Secretary, the official in many British Colonies who headed the day-to-day functions of the colony's government, deputy to the Governor
David succeeded in removing oppositionist bishops, and combined two offices: courtier’s (Mtzignobartukhutsesi, i.e. Chief Secretary) and clerical (Bishop of Tchqondidi) into a single institution of Tchqondidel-Mtzignobartukhutsesi corresponding roughly to the post of prime minister.
George McCarthy, OBE is the former Chief Secretary of the Cayman Islands.
During the premierships of Bertram Stevens and Alexander Mair, Gollan held numerous ministerial positions including Minister for Labour and Industry and Social Welfare and Colonial Secretary.
George William Nicol (died 1884) was the first African Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone and was one of few African senior level colonial officials in Freetown during the 19th century.
He was a member of the Executive Council serving as colonial secretary from 1898 to 1900, as Minister of Posts and Telegraphs from 1916 to 1919 and as a minister without portfolio in 1924 and 1928.
Rusty Bugles was a controversial Australian play written by Sumner Locke Elliott that toured extensively throughout Australia between 1948–1949 and achieved the notoriety of being closed down by the Chief Secretary's Office for obscenity.
When first built in 1869, Sri Temasek was the residence of the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements.
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Bonev was appointed Director of the Sofia Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in 1991 and shortly after that he became Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior in the government of Philip Dimitrov.
However, for most of its history the Chief Secretary was in charge of all matters relating to correspondence with government departments, naturalisation, the Great Seal, state security, censorship and classification laws, the arts (to 1975), Public Health (to 1934), Aboriginal welfare (to 1969), Lord Howe Island, and environmental protection and fisheries.
The former Secretary for Security Regina Ip who was in charge of introducing the Basic Law Article 23 stood for the Hong Kong Island by-election in 2007 against the former Chief Secretary Anson Chan supported by the pro-democrats.