Public Life
Colville was Assistant Private Secretary to three Prime Ministers:
- Neville Chamberlain, 1939–40,
- Winston Churchill, 1940–41 and 1943–45, (and Joint Principal Private Secretary, 1951–55),
- Clement Attlee, 1945
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