Sir George Walker Moseley, KCB (7 February 1925 – 28 September 2011) was a Scottish civil servant. The son of William Moseley,

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, he entered the

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in 1943 and served as a pilot in Iraq, leaving the force in 1948. He studied at

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, before entering the civil service. For much of his career he was in the

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(where he was principal private secretary to the minister from 1963 to 1965) and then its successor the

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, where he was

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from 1981 to his retirement in 1985. He was then chairman of the Civic Trust from 1990 to 2000 and chairman of the British Cement Association at the same time. Tam Dalyell
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'', 1 November 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moseley, George 1925 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Scottish civil servants Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath Civil servants in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Private secretaries in the British Civil Service Royal Air Force personnel of World War II