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Sir Conrad Frederick Heron, KCB,
OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(21 February 1916 - 22 July 2019) was an English civil servant. Born to a British father and
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mother, Heron was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He entered the civil service in 1938 as an official in the
Ministry of Labour The Ministry of Labour ('' UK''), or Labor ('' US''), also known as the Department of Labour, or Labor, is a government department responsible for setting labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, training, a ...
, but his career was interrupted by service in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Returning to the Ministry of Labour, he was private secretary to the
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in 1953, and went on to work in the industrial relations and overseas departments. He was appointed deputy secretary in the Ministry's successor, the Department of Employment, in 1968; after serving as deputy chairman of the Commission on Industrial Relations from 1971 to 1972, he returned to the Department of Employment as Second
Permanent Secretary A permanent secretary (also known as a principal secretary) is the most senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant of a department or Ministry (government department), ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day ...
in 1973 and then served as Permanent Secretary from 1973 to 1976, which coincided with the Three-Day Week. In her autobiography, Shirley Williams called Heron the "peerless" leader of "a remarkable team of conciliators and arbitrators" during that period of intense industrial unrest. Shirley Williams, ''Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams'' ( Little, Brown, 2009).


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1916 births 2019 deaths English civil servants Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath Officers of the Order of the British Empire English centenarians Men centenarians Royal Navy personnel of World War II {{England-politician-stub