For Claudia it was mildly embarrassing: There were twenty servants to care for three of them, all so sybaritic and colonial and exploitative.

(26 January 1896-2 January 1965) was a British colonial public servant, historian, poet and Sinologist in Malaya (now Malaysia).

His father, like mine, was a colonial servant rushing round the world hauling down the imperial flag.

A colonial civil servant, Ruiz de Santayana was also a painter and minor intellectual.

Thomas Matthew Taylor (born 1852) was a New Zealand colonial public servant.

Much of Woolf's fictional writing was short stories drawn from her life as the wife of two colonial civil servants.

Kenyatta's policy was conciliatory and he kept many colonial civil servants in their old jobs.

Her father, Reginald Kenneth Johnson, was a colonial civil servant who spent much of his life working in Nigeria.

Alfred John Agg (1830-1886) was an Australian colonial public servant and Commissioner of Railways, Victoria.

His policy was that of continuity and gradual Africanisation of the government, keeping many colonial civil servants in their old jobs as they were gradually replaced by Kenyans.