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The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.

Lord Milverton

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.

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About Lord Milverton

Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton (21 February 1885 – 27 October 1978), was a British colonial administrator who over his career served as Governor of North Borneo, Gambia, Fiji, Jamaica, and Nigeria.