Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft
Ian Powell Bancroft, Baron Bancroft, GCB (23 December 1922 – 19 November 1996) was a British senior civil servant.
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Life
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. He was born at Barrow-in-Furness, the son of a teacher. He was educated at Sir William Turner's Grammar School, Coatham and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He served with the Rifle Brigade in France from 1942-43, reaching the rank of Captain.[citation needed]
After leaving the Army he joined the Civil Service, serving as Private Secretary to the Second Secretary to the Treasury Sir Henry Wilson Smith from 1948-50, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler from 1953-55, and also to Butler as Lord Privy Seal from 1955-57. He was Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling in 1964, continuing under James Callaghan until 1966, when he became an Under-Secretary to the Treasury.[citation needed]
In 1968 he moved to the same position in the new Civil Service Department, then to the Department of the Environment as Deputy Secretary and Director General of Organisation and Establishments from 1970-72. From 1972-73 he was a Commissioner of HM Customs and Excise, then Second Permanent Secretary at the Civil Service Department until 1975.[citation needed]
He returned to the Department of the Environment as Permanent Secretary from 1975-77 before becoming Permanent Secretary to the Civil Service Department and Head of the Home Civil Service in 1978. In 1981 Margaret Thatcher abolished the Civil Service Department, effectively ending his career.[citation needed]
Honours
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1971 Birthday Honours,[1] a Knight Commander in the 1975 New Year Honours,[2] and a Knight Grand Cross in 1979 New Year Honours.[3]
On 15 February 1982 he was created a life peer as Baron Bancroft, of Coatham in the County of Cleveland,[4] and took his seat in the House of Lords.
Personal life
He was married in 1950 to Jean Swaine, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. Lord Bancroft died in London in 1996.
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45384. p. 5959. 12 June 1971.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46444. p. 3. 1 January 1975.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47723. p. 2. 30 December 1978.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 48890. p. 2083. 15 February 1982.
Links
- Dalyell, Tam, Obituary: Lord Bancroft, The Independent, 22 November 1996.
- Articles with unsourced statements from March 2016
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- 1922 births
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Rifle Brigade officers
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Permanent Secretaries of the Civil Service Department
- Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Environment
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- 1996 deaths
- People educated at Sir William Turner's Grammar School, Redcar
