John Hepworth Holroyd, (10 April 1935 – 29 November 2014) was an English public servant. Educated at Worcester College, Oxford, he entered the civil service in 1959. After chairing the Civil Service Selection Board (1978–80) and serving in Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and in the Cabinet Office, he was the
First Civil Service Commissioner
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from 1989 to 1993. He was then
Secretary for Appointments to the Prime Minister and Ecclesiastical Secretary to the Lord Chancellor from 1993 to 1999.
[Charles Gordon Clark]
"Obituary: John Hepworth Holroyd"
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''Who Was Who
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, 2021). Retrieved 11 August 2021 Active in the
Church of England
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, he was a
lay reader
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at
St Albans Cathedral
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from 1975 to 2001, and then
Gloucester Cathedral
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from 2001 until his death.
References
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1935 births
2014 deaths
English civil servants
Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
Anglican lay readers