Burke trend, baron trend

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Burke St. John Trend, Baron Trend PC GCB CVO ( January 2, 1914 - July 21, 1987 ) was a British government official who served ten years as Cabinet Secretary under Prime Ministers Alec Douglas-Home , Harold Wilson and Edward Heath was and became a member of the House of Lords in 1974 when Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 . Most recently he was rector of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford for ten years between 1973 and 1983 .

Life

Government Official and Promotion to Cabinet Secretary

Trend graduated after attending the Whitgift School studying classical studies at Merton College , where he graduated with honors. After he entered the civil service ( Civil Service a) and was during his professional career after a short stint from 1936 to 1937 in the Ministry of Education ( Ministry of Education ) from 1937 to 1955 to the Treasury ( HM Treasury operates). There he was from 1945 to 1949 Senior Private Secretary ( Principal Private Secretary ) of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer ( Chancellor of the Exchequer ) Hugh Dalton and Stafford Cripps and then from 1949 to 1955 under secretary ( Under-Secretary ) to the Treasury. For his services in the administration, he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) on June 1, 1953 and on January 1, 1955 as Companion des Order of the Bath .

After one year of activity from 1955 to 1956 in the office of Lord Privy Seal ( Lord Privy Seal ) Rab Butler was Trend 1956-1959 Deputy Cabinet Secretary ( Deputy Cabinet Secretary ) and representatives of Norman Brook , which was 1947-1962 Cabinet Secretary and at the same time in 1956 until 1962 was also Head of Her Majesty's Civil Service .

1959 trend only third permanent secretary and a year later in 1960 Second Permanent Secretary ( Second Permanent Secretary ) of the Treasury and was there until his replacement by Philip Allen responsible in 1963 for public service. On June 2, 1962 he became Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

He then succeeded Norman Brook as cabinet secretary in 1963 and held this position as head of the Cabinet Office under Prime Ministers Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath for ten years until he was replaced by John Hunt in 1973. The same was exercised by Brook However, Laurence Helsby took over the function of the head of the public service . In 1972 he was also appointed Privy Councilor . During his tenure as cabinet secretary, among other things, he was also active as an advisor and close associate of the respective prime ministers in matters of defense and disarmament policy as well as foreign policy.

Member of the House of Lords and Rector of Lincoln College

By a letters patent dated March 7, 1974, Trend was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Trend , of Greenwich in Greater London, under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death .

After finishing his work as a cabinet secretary, he followed 1973 Walter Oakeshott as rector of Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and held this position also for ten years until by 1983 Vivian HH Green was replaced, the 1951-1983 Fellow and Tutor of History was and acted as managing rector from 1972 to 1973.

His marriage to the math teacher Patricia Charlotte Shaw in 1949 resulted in his son Michael Trend , who was a member of the House of Commons as a representative of the Conservative Party between 1992 and 2005 . Patricia Trend, Baroness Trend, passed away in 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39863, HMSO, London, June 1, 1953, p. 2947 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40366, HMSO, London, January 1, 1955, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  3. ^ Grant Jordan: The British Administrative System: Principles Versus Practice , 2002, ISBN 0-20319-1-676 , p. 97
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42683, HMSO, London, June 2, 1962, p. 4309 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  5. ↑ Kevin Theakston: The 1964-70 Labor Governments and Whitehall Reform (PDF; 380 kB), 2004, p. 3
  6. ↑ Simon James: British Cabinet Government , 2002, ISBN 0-20300-9-703 , p. 281
  7. ↑ Obituary. Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Cabinet Secretary who appeared in the High Court to contest publication of the Crossman diaries . In: The Independent of July 21, 2008
  8. ^ John R. Walker: Britain and Disarmament: The UK and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Arms Controls and Programs, 1956 - 1975 , 2012, ISBN 1-40943-5-814 , pp. 14 ff.
  9. ↑ Simon C. Smith (editor): Reassessing Suez 1956: New Perspectives on the Crisis and Its Aftermath , 2008, ISBN 0-75466-1-709 , p. 195
  10. ↑ Lincoln College - Caller Handbook  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 3@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.linc.ox.ac.uk  
  11. ↑ LINCOLN COLLEGE RECORD 2 0 0 8 - 0 9 (PDF; 4.5 MB), p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Trend, Burke, Baron Trend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trend, Burke St. John, Baron Trend (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Government Official and University Rector
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1914
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1987