List of permanent under secretaries of state of the Home Office
This is a list of permanent under secretaries of state of the Home Office of the United Kingdom.
The permanent under secretary of state, or, permanent secretary, to the Home Office, is the most senior civil servant in the department, charged with running its affairs on a day-to-day basis.
Home Office Permanent Secretaries[]
- Matthew Rycroft 17 March 2020[1]
- Sir Philip Rutnam 2017-2020
- Sir Mark Sedwill 2013– 2017
- Helen Kilpatrick 2012–2013 (acting)
- Dame Helen Ghosh 2011–2012
- Sir David Normington 2006–2010
- Sir John Gieve 2002–2006
- Sir David Omand 1997–2002
- Sir Richard Wilson 1994–1997
- Sir Clive Whitmore 1988–1994
- Sir Brian Cubbon 1979–1988
- Sir Robert Armstrong 1977–1979
- Sir Arthur Peterson 1972–1977
- Sir Philip Allen 1966–1972
- Sir Charles Cunningham 1957–1966
- Sir Frank Newsam 1948–1957
- Sir Alexander Maxwell 1938–1948
- Sir Russell Scott 1932–1938
- Sir John Anderson 1922–1932
- Sir Edward Troup 1908–1922
- Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers 1903–1908
- Sir Kenelm Digby 1895–1903
- Sir Godfrey Lushington 1885–1895#
- Hon Sir Adolphus Liddell 1867–1885[2]
- Horatio Waddington 1848–1867
- Samuel March Phillips 1827–1848
- Henry Hobhouse 1817–27
- John Beckett [later Sir John Beckett, Bart.] 1806–1817
- John King 1792
- Scrope Barnard 1789
- March 1782: J. Bell
- April 1782: Evan Nepean
- December 1791: John King
- February 1806: J. Beckett
- June 1817: Henry Hobhouse
- July 1827: Samuel March Phillipps[3]
- 1840: H. Waddington
- 1867: (Sir) Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell
- June 1885: Sir H. Maine
- July 1885: Sir Godfrey Lushington
- 1895: Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1903: Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers
- 1908: Sir Edward Troup
- 1922: Sir John Anderson
- 1932: Sir
- 1938: Sir Alexander Maxwell
- 1948: Sir Frank Newsam
- 1957: Sir Charles Cunningham
- 1966: Sir Philip Allen
- 1972: Sir Arthur Peterson
- 1977: (Sir) Robert Armstrong
- 1979: Sir Brian Cubbon
- 1988: Sir Clive Whitmore
- 1994: Sir Richard Wilson
- 1997: Sir David Omand
- 2001: Sir John Gieve
- 2005: Sir David Normington
- 2011: Dame Helen Ghosh
- 2013: Mark Sedwill[4]
- 2017: (Sir) Philip Rutnam
- 2020: Matthew Rycroft
See also[]
- Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Undersecretary
References[]
- ^ "Matthew Rycroft CBE appointed Permanent Secretary at the Home Office". gov.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
- ^ Source for Liddell and all his predecessors – Newsam F. (Newsam F (1954) The Home Office (London, Allen and Unwin), p.215)
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Home Office boss quits over 'campaign against him'". BBC News. 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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