Gilmour Jenkins

Sir Thomas Gilmour Jenkins, KCB, KBE, MC (18 July 1894 – 9 September 1981), commonly known as Gilmour Jenkins, was a British civil servant.

[1] Jenkins was educated at Rutlish School and later took an external degree course of the University of London, gaining a B.Sc.

He served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I, and was awarded the Military Cross and bar in 1918.

He returned to the civil service, which he had joined in 1913, in 1919 as an official in the Board of Trade.

[1][3] Jenkins was then Permanent Secretary of the Control Commission for Germany and Austria from 1946 to 1947 and, after the commission was taken over the Foreign Office, he was briefly Joint Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office in 1947.