Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft

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Ian Powell Bancroft, Baron Bancroft (born December 23, 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness , † November 19, 1996 in London ) was a British councilor .

Life

Ian Bancroft, son of a teacher, visited the Sir William Turner's Grammar School in Coatham ( North Yorkshire ) and Balliol College in Oxford . During World War II he served in France in the Rifle Brigade from 1942 to 1943 and rose to the rank of captain .

After leaving the army, Bancroft entered the civil service and served from 1948 to 1950 as the private secretary of the second state secretary for finance, Henry Wilson Smith, and from 1953 to 1955 as that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler , for whom he was subsequently from 1955 to 1957 Lord Seal Keeper was active. In 1964 he became head of cabinet of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling and remained under James Callaghan in this position until 1966, when he was promoted to State Secretary in the Treasury. In 1968 he moved to the newly created Ministry of Public Service in the same position. He then acted from 1970 to 1972 as Deputy State Secretary and General Director for Organization and Operations in the Ministry of the Environment. From 1972 to 1973 he was Commissioner of the Department for Customs and Excise Taxes and thereafter until 1975 second permanent State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service. He returned to the Ministry of the Environment as permanent state secretary from 1975 to 1977 before becoming permanent state secretary of the Ministry of Public Service and head of the Home Civil Service in 1978 . Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished the Ministry of Public Service in 1981, effectively ending Bancroft's career.

In 1971 Bancroft was named Companion of the Order of the Bath , and knighted as Knight Commander in 1975 and Knight Grand Cross of the same order in 1979 . In 1982 he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Bancroft , of Coatham in the County of Cleveland, and thereby received a seat in the House of Lords .

Bancroft, who had been married to Jean Swaine since 1950 and had two sons and a daughter with his wife, died on November 19, 1996 at the age of almost 74 in London.

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SURNAME Bancroft, Ian, Baron Bancroft
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bancroft, Ian Powell, Baron Bancroft
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Barrow-in-Furness
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1996
Place of death London