Snow, Philip (Albert)

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SNOW, Philip (Albert)

SNOW, Philip (Albert). British, b. 1915. Genres: Novellas/Short stories, Administration/Management, Anthropology/Ethnology, Archaeology/ Antiquities, History, Sports/Fitness, Travel/Exploration, Autobiography/ Memoirs, Bibliography, Biography. Career: Administrator and magistrate, Fiji and Western Pacific, 1938-52, liaison officer, Fiji Government and US Forces, 1942-44; bursar, Rugby School, Warwickshire, 1952-76; chairman, Public Schools Bursars Assn, Great Britain and Commonwealth, 1962-65; Order of the British Empire, 1979; Justice of the Peace, Warwicks, 1969-76, and West Sussex, 1976-; examiner on Pacific Subjects, Oxford and Cambridge Univs., 1955-. Permanent representative of Fiji, International Cricket Conference Council, 1965-95. Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, and Royal Anthropological Institute; literary executor for Lord Snow. Order of the British Empire, officer, 1985. Publications: Civil Defence Services, Fiji, 1942; Cricket in the Fiji Islands, 1949; Rock Carvings in Fiji, 1950; Bula, 1959; (with D.M. Sherwood and F.J. Walesby) Visit of Three Bursars to Schools and Universities in US and Canada, 1964; (with J.S. Woodhouse) Visit of Her Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Philip to Rugby School on the Occasion of the Quatercentenary, 1967; Bibliography of Fiji, Tonga and Rotuma, vol. I, 1969; (with S. Waine) The People from the Horizon, 1979; Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C.P. Snow, 1982; The Rarest Printed Work on the Pacific? A Bibliographer's Proposition, 1988; The Years of Hope, 1997; A Time of Renewal, 1998. EDITOR: (with G.K. Roth) Fijian Customs, 1944; Best Stories of the South Seas, 1967. Contributor to books and journals. Address: 46 Bennett Court, Station Rd, Letchworth, Hertford- shire SG6 3WA, England.