Ivor Frederick Wentworth Schofield
{{Short description|British colonial administrator in West Africa}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|07|05|df=y}}
| birth_place = Worcester, Worcestershire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|09|25|1904|07|05|df=y}}
| death_place = Ballaugh, Isle of Man
| nationality = British
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| occupation = Colonial administrator
| known_for = Income tax expert
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Ivor Frederick Wentworth Schofield {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|CMG|ED}} (5 July 1904 – 25 September 1979) was a British colonial administrator in West Africa.
Life
Ivor Frederick Wentworth Schofield was born on 5 July 1904 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England.{{sfn|A 'West African' CMG ... Aberdeen Medals}}
He attended the King's School in Worcester and Hertford College, Oxford.
He joined the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria as a cadet in 1927.{{sfn|Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield, Bodleian Library}}
On 6 May 1930 Schofield was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the European Reserve Force of Nigeria.{{sfn|A 'West African' CMG ... Aberdeen Medals}}
During World War II (1939–45) Schofield served with the Royal West African Frontier Force from 1940 to 1942, then with the British Military Administration in Tripolitania from 1942 to 1943.
He served in the Dodecanese from 1943 to 1945.{{sfn|Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield, Bodleian Library}}
He was mentioned in despatches for his services in the Dodecanese.{{sfn|A 'West African' CMG ... Aberdeen Medals}}
Schofield reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (temporary).{{sfn|Supplement to the London Gazette 1945}}
Schofield returned to Nigeria after the war.
As a Divisional Officer in 1948 he called Ikot-Abasi "a dying place, not a growing one."
Rather than bear the high costs of dredging and upgrading the harbor, the government closed the port and customs post on 1 January 1950.{{sfn|Smith|2013}}
He was promoted to Resident in 1949.
In 1954 he was appointed Administrative Officer, Staff Grade, in the Western Region of Nigeria.{{sfn|Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield, Bodleian Library}}
He held this rank in June 1957 when he was made a CMG.{{sfn|Supplement to the London Gazette 1957}}
In 1958 Schofield became Commissioner of the Inland Revenue in the Western Region.
Schofield officially retired in 1959, but was retained on contract until December 1960.
He was Administrator of Income Tax in Southern Cameroons from 1960 to 1961, Commissioner of Income Tax in the Gambia from 1964 to 1966 and Adviser on Income Tax in the Gambia from 1967 to 1970 before finally retiring.{{sfn|Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield, Bodleian Library}}
After his retirement Ivor Schofield moved to Saint Martin, Guernsey.
He died in Ballaugh, Isle of Man on 25 September 1979
The Bodleian Library, Oxford, has a large archive of personal papers from Schofield's African Colonial Service.{{sfn|A 'West African' CMG ... Aberdeen Medals}}
References
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Sources
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- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|A 'West African' CMG ... Aberdeen Medals}}|url=http://aberdeenmedals.com/home.php?id=1
|title=A 'West African' CMG, campaign and long service group of 8|publisher=Aberdeen Medals|access-date=2014-08-22}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield, Bodleian Library}}|url=http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/schofield-ivor.html
|title=Papers of Ivor F.W. Schofield|publisher=Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies at Rhodes House|access-date=2014-08-22}}
- {{cite web|url=https://alscon.net/urbanisation-ikot-abasi/65-ikot-abasi-from-second-class-to-third-class-township-1917-1950.html#.U_eOR_ldXU4
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140822191919/https://alscon.net/urbanisation-ikot-abasi/65-ikot-abasi-from-second-class-to-third-class-township-1917-1950.html%23.U_eOR_ldXU4
|url-status=usurped
|archive-date=August 22, 2014
|last=Smith|year=2013|title=Ikot Abasi: From Second Class to Third Class Township, 1917-1950|publisher=Alscon|access-date=2014-08-22}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Supplement to the London Gazette 1945}}|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37310/supplement/5099/data.pdf
|title=Supplement to the London Gazette |date=1945-10-18|page=5099|access-date=2014-08-22}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Supplement to the London Gazette 1957}}|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41089/supplement/3371/data.pdf
|title=Supplement to the London Gazette|date=1957-06-13|page=3371|access-date=2014-08-22}}
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Category:Colonial Administrative Service officers
Category:Royal West African Frontier Force officers
Category:British Army personnel of World War II
Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George