Conrad Corfield

Sir Conrad Laurence Corfield KCIE, CSI, MC, (15 August 1893 – 3 October 1980), was a British civil servant and the private secretary to several viceroys of India, including Lord Mountbatten.

[9]Corfield was subsequently appointed the adjutant of his battalion, and was promoted to the substantive rank of captain on 29 August 1917 (precedence from 1 June 1916).

After initial training in the Punjab, in May 1921 Corfield was posted to New Delhi to serve as assistant private secretary to the Viceroy, Lord Reading.

At the close of 1932 he returned to the England to serve as adviser to the Delegation of Rewa at the third session of the Indian Round Table Conference.

[3] Corfield remained in India until the British transfer of power to the governments of Nehru and Jinnah was completed in August of that year.

He also sought and received the permission of the British government to destroy four tons of records that had been collected concerning the princes' personal lives.

[14][15] On returning to Britain, Corfield had several occupations such as governor and vice-president of St Lawrence College, Chairman of Wokingham Division Conservative Association from 1950 to 1954 and chairman of Yateley Industries for Disabled Girls from 1954 to 1964..[16] Corfield firstly married Phyllis Betha Pugh, the daughter of L. P. E. Pugh, KC on 22 December 1922.