About Frederick Wheeler
Lived 1914 – 1994 (aged 80). Frederick Wheeler was an Australian civil servant.
Sir Frederick Henry Wheeler (9 January 1914 – 5 August 1994) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 1971 to 1979.
Life and career Frederick Wheeler was born on 9 January 1914. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School and Scotch College in Melbourne.
Wheeler began his Commonwealth public service career in 1939 in the Department of the Treasury.
He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in November 1971. and a Commander of the Order (CBE) in 1962.
He was knighted in 1967. Sir Frederick Wheeler was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in January 1979.
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Australian public servant
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Frederick Wheeler was born on 9 January 1914.
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Frederick Wheeler died on 5 August 1994.
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Frederick Wheeler was a civil servant.
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Frederick Wheeler was Australian.
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