About John Herbecq
Lived 1922 – 2021 (aged 99). John Herbecq was a British civil servant.
Sir John Edward Herbecq, KCB (29 May 1922 – 7 September 2021) was an English civil servant. He entered the civil service in 1939 as an official in the Colonial Office and subsequently served in HM Treasury (1950–60, 1962–68) and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (1960–62). He moved to the Civil Service Department in 1968 and served as its Second Permanent Secretary from 1975 to 1981. In retirement, he was a Church Commissioner from 1982 to 1996. In 2006, he deposited an unpublished personal memoir from 2002 and related papers at the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge.
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English civil servant
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John Herbecq was born on 29 May 1922.
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John Herbecq died on 7 September 2021.
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John Herbecq was a civil servant.
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