The Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office is the

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of the Home Office, the most senior civil servant in the department, charged with running its affairs on a day-to-day basis.

Home Office Permanent Secretaries

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* July 1827 – 1848: Samuel March Phillipps * 1848–1867: Horatio Waddington * 1867–1885: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell * June 1885: Sir H. Maine * July 1885 – 1895: Sir Godfrey Lushington * 1895–1903: Sir Kenelm Edward Digby, Kenelm Digby * 1903–1908: Sir

Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers (7 February 1847 – 22 December 1927) was a British judge and civil servant. He was Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury, a judge of the county courts and a Law Member of the Viceroy's Council in In ...

* 1908–1922: Sir

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* 1922–1932: Sir

John Anderson John Anderson may refer to: Business *John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland * John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...

* 1932–1938: Sir Russell Scott * 1938–1948: Sir Alexander Maxwell * 1948–1957: Sir

Frank Newsam Sir Frank Aubrey Newsam, (13 November 1893 – 25 April 1964) was a British civil servant notable for his service as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 1948 to 1957, although he had been a central figure for many years pr ...

* 1957–1966: Sir

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* 1966–1972: Sir Philip Allen * 1972–1977: Sir Arthur Peterson * 1977–1979: Sir Robert Armstrong * 1979–1988: Sir Brian Cubbon * 1988–1994: Sir

Clive Whitmore Sir Clive Anthony Whitmore (born 18 January 1935) is a former British senior civil servant. Whitmore was educated at Sutton Grammar School in Surrey and Christ's College, Cambridge. Whitmore served as Principal Private Secretary to Margaret T ...

* 1994–1997: Sir Richard Wilson * 1997–2001: Sir David Omand * 2001–2005: Sir John Gieve * 2005–2011: Sir David Normington * 2011–2012: Dame

Helen Ghosh Dame Helen Frances Ghosh, Order of the Bath, DCB (; ; Kirkby; born 21 February 1956) is a former British civil servant who has been Master of Balliol College, Oxford since 2018. She was previously Director-General of the National Trust for Plac ...

* 2012–2013: Helen Kilpatrick (acting) * 2013–2017: Mark Sedwill * 2017–2020: Sir Philip Rutnam * 17 March 2020: Sir Matthew Rycroft

References

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Home Office Permanent Secretaries

See also

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