Alix Kilroy

Who was Alix Kilroy?

Dame Alix Hester Marie Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE was one of the first two women to have entered the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination. She was given a desk at the Board of Trade, where she ascended to Under-Secretary and where she served for 30 years. She retired in 1955. She marked her 95th birthday by publishing a new book What Grandmother Said, was the last of her writings. Her 1988 autobiography, Public Servant, Private Woman, charted her progress through government.