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 Ind ...

* 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 Tha ...

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

David Normington Sir David John Normington, (born 18 October 1951) is a retired British civil servant. He served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2005, and then of the Home Office until 2011. From 2011 until 2 ...

* 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 Helen Marjorie Kilpatrick (born 9 October 1958) is a British civil servant. She was Governor of the Cayman Islands between 2013 and 2018. Career Kilpatrick was educated at King's College, Cambridge. She began her career in local government in ...

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

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Home Office Permanent Secretaries

See also

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