Henry Hardman

Sir Henry Hardman, KCB (15 December 1905 – 17 January 2001) was an English civil servant and, briefly, an academic economist. Educated at the University of Manchester, he was appointed an economics tutor at the University of Leeds in 1934. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was drafted into the civil service in 1940 and served in the Ministry of Food. He was Deputy Head of the in Washington, DC (1946–48) and was the Minister of the UK's Permanent Delegations in Paris from 1953 to 1955. When the Ministry of Food merged with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in 1955, he transferred to the new Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He moved to the Ministry of Aviation in 1960 and was its Permanent Secretary from 1961 to 1963. He was then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) from 1963 to 1966, overseeing the merger of the former service departments into the MoD. After retiring, he was chairman of the Home Grown Cereals' Authority (1968–77) and the Covent Garden Market Authority (1967–75), managing the market's move to Nine Elms, and he served on the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1967–70; as deputy chairman until 1968). He acted as negotiator for a Post Office pay agreement in 1971.^[1][2]

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