Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby

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Laurence Norman Helsby, Baron Helsby GCB KBE (born April 27, 1908 - † December 5, 1978 ) was a British government official who became a life peer in the House of Lords in 1968 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Helsby began after visiting the Sedbergh School in Cumbria study at Keble College of the University of Oxford and was then from 1930 to 1931, first lecturer at the University College of the South West of England , before he then 1931-1945 Lecturer in Economics at the University of Durham taught.

After the electoral victory of the Labor Party in the lower house elections on July 5, 1945 , he entered the civil service ( Civil Service ), and was only assistant secretary of the Treasury ( HM Treasury ) and subsequent 1947-1950 Senior Private Secretary ( Principal Private Secretary ) by Prime Minister Clement Attlee . For his services there he became a member ( Companion ) of the Order of the Bath (CB) on January 2, 1950 .

After a subsequent assignment as an official in the Ministry of Food , Helsby acted as the successor to Paul Sinker between 1954 and his replacement by George Mallaby in 1959 as First Commissioner of the Civil Service Commission . For his special services, he was knighted on January 1, 1955, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

He then 1959-1963 Permanent Secretary ( Permanent Secretary ) and the highest government official in the Ministry of Labor ( Ministry of Labor ) and was chosen for its local services on 1 January 1963, the Grand Cross ( Knight Grand Cross ) of the Order of the Bath (GCB ) honored. He then succeeded Norman Brook as Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury in 1963 and worked there together with William Armstrong until 1968 , while in 1968 Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, as their joint successor, became sole permanent secretary of the Treasury again .

In 1963, he also took over as the successor to Norman Brook as Head of Her Majesty's Civil Service , while Burke Trend took over the role of Cabinet Secretary held by Brook . He was succeeded as head of the public service in 1968 by William Armstrong.

By a letters patent dated May 21, 1968, Helsby was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Helsby , of Logmore in the County of Surrey, under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death Member at.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38797, HMSO, London, January 2, 1950, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40366, HMSO, London, January 1, 1955, p. 11 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 42870, HMSO, London, January 1, 1963, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  4. ^ Keith Middlemass, Power, Competition, and the State: Britain in search of balance, 1940-61 , 1986, p. 338, ISBN 0-81798-4-917
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44592, HMSO, London, May 21, 1968, p. 5843 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Helsby, Laurence, Baron Helsby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helsby, Laurence Norman, Baron Helsby (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British government official
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1908
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1978