Malcolm , Sir , Neill , 1869-1953 , Knight , Lieutenant

Born, 1869; educated: St Peter's School, York; Eton College; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned second lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1889; served in India, before travelling to both China and Tibet in 1896; served in the Tochi valley expedition on the North West Frontier before being posted to Uganda, 1897-1899; attached to the headquarters staff in South Africa, 1899-1900; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1899-1931; attended the Staff College, Camberley, 1902; posted to Somaliland, 1903-1904; staff captain in the military operations directorate of the War Office, travelling to Morocco on official business, 1905; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, War Office, -1908; Secretary of the historical section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), 1908; General staff officer, grade 2 (GSO2) on the Staff College directing staff, 1912; First World War service; head of the British military mission in Berlin, 1919; General Officer Commanding in Malaya, 1921-1924; retired from the Army, 1924; President of the British North Borneo Company; President of the China Society; chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, 1926-1933; League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, 1934-1938; died, 1953.