Sir Brian David Hayes, GCB (5 May 1929 – 31 May 2022) was an English civil servant."Hayes, Sir Brian (David)"
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, 2021). Retrieved 2 February 2022. Educated at

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and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he joined the

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in 1956 and was its Permanent Secretary from 1979 to 1983. He was then Permanent Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry from 1983 to 1989, jointly until 1985. He subsequently held directorships at Guardian Royal Exchange, Tate and Lyle, and

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.Keith Dowding, ''The Civil Service, Theory and Practice in British Politics'' (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 123.

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1929 births 2022 deaths English civil servants People educated at Norwich School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath {{UK-gov-bio-stub