Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers GCB PC (18 August 1858 17 November 1938), was a British civil servant. Chalmers was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the son of John Chalmers and his wife Julia (née Mackay). He was educated at the City of London School, and at Oriel College, Oxford. He joined the Treasury at an early stage and served as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury from 1903 to 1907. He was then Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1907 and 1911. The latter year Chalmers was appointed Governor of Ceylon, a post he held until…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers GCB PC (18 August 1858 17 November 1938), was a British civil servant. Chalmers was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the son of John Chalmers and his wife Julia (née Mackay). He was educated at the City of London School, and at Oriel College, Oxford. He joined the Treasury at an early stage and served as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury from 1903 to 1907. He was then Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1907 and 1911. The latter year Chalmers was appointed Governor of Ceylon, a post he held until 1916, and was then briefly Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Wimborne in 1916. He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council the same year. He now returned to the Treasury and served as Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1916 to 1919. In 1919 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Chalmers, of Northiam in the County of Sussex. He served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1922-31.