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5 unusual facts about Inland Revenue


Cassandra Latham

She is notable as being the first person in the UK to have registered her occupation as village witch with the Inland Revenue in the year 1996.

David Courtley

During this period Fujitsu Services has also entrenched its position as the IT services provider of choice for the UK Government, winning several large outsourcing contracts, including those for the Inland Revenue, MOD and large parts of the NHS.

Douglas Myall

At the same time, he was working at the Inland Revenue and studied security printing that had been helping him in his philatelic activities.

Ian Lorimer

Formerly a freelance vision mixer, Lorimer is well known in the British television industry for winning a court case against the Inland Revenue over his tax status as a freelancer, which served as a precedent for many other media workers.

Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman

Woolman served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Office of Fair Trading from 1991 to 1995, to the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence from 1991 to 1995, and to the Inland Revenue from 1996 to 1998.


Olive Nicol, Baroness Nicol

From 1942 to 1944, Nicol was clerical officer of the Inland Revenue and Inspector of the Admiralty from 1944 to 1948.

Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson

::Their children included Henry William Primrose (1846–1923) who became chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue from 1899 to 1907.


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Arthur William Garnett

Arthur William, the younger son of William Garnett of Westmoreland, inspector-general of inland revenue, was born 1 June 1829, and educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary, where he obtained his first commission in 1846, and proceeded to India in 1848 as a lieutenant of the Bengal engineers.

David Dumbreck

Dumbreck, the only son of Thomas Dumbreck, collector of inland revenue at Glasgow, by Elizabeth, youngest daughter of David Sutherland of the same service, was born in Aberdeenshire in 1805 and educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. in 1830, having previously, in 1825, passed as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.

John Macdonald Cameron

In 1870 he gained a Board of Inland Revenue scholarship in Science and studied at the Royal School of Mines winning 1st class prize in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.

Stronge baronets

He served as chief magistrate of police at Dublin, and solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue for Ireland, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Armagh and County Tyrone as well as Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh.