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Alix Kilroy
British public servant
Dame Alix Hester Marie Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE (1903–1999)[1] was one of the first two women to have entered the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination (in 1925).
She was given a desk at the Board of Trade, where she ascended to Under-Secretary and where she served for 30 years (aside from a brief spell at the newly formed Monopolies Commission). She retired in 1955. She marked her 95th birthday by publishing a new book: What Grandmother Said (published February 1998), was the last of her writings. Her 1988 autobiography, Public Servant, Private Woman, charted her progress through government.[2]