Sir Henry Gabriel Ware, KCB (23 July 1912 – 12 October 1989) was a British lawyer and government official.

Career

Born on 23 July 1912, Ware was educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford; he was admitted a solicitor in 1938,"Ware, Sir Henry (Gabriel)"
''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 4 November 2018. and joined the Treasury Solicitor's Department in February 1939 as a Junior Legal Assistant. After the

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broke out, he joined the

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and became a

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; he was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1939, and was later promoted to captain. For the decade after the war, he served as a legal adviser to the

Ministry of Transport A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government ag ...

and was briefly involved in the establishment of the

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, before moving in 1955 to the

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and the

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, where he was concerned with such issues as the status of the Sovereign Bases in

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and the future of the naval dockyards in

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. In the mid-1960s he was Principal Legal Adviser to the Department of Economic Affairs, and worked to draft parts of the July Measures (1966) to stave off a devaluation of the Pound (this failed to prevent to the 1967 Sterling crisis)."Sir Henry Ware", ''The Times'' (London), 16 October 1989, p. 18. In 1969, he became Deputy Treasury Solicitor, and in 1971 secured promotion to be

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Service. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor. This office g ...

, serving until 1975. Having been appointed a Companion of the

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in 1971, Ware was promoted to Knight Commander the following year. In retirement, he lived in Surrey. He died on 12 October 1989, three years after his wife Gloria, ''née'' Platt, had died. Three of their four children were alive at the time of his death.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ware, Henry 1912 births 1989 deaths English solicitors Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Royal Artillery officers 20th-century English lawyers British Army personnel of World War II Treasury Solicitors