Osmund Somers Cleverly
British civil servant and private secretary to Neville Chamberlain
About Osmund Somers Cleverly
Lived 1891 – 1966 (aged 74–75). Osmund Somers Cleverly was a civil servant.
Sir Osmund Somers Cleverly (25 October 1891 – 21 October 1966) was a British civil servant who, between 1935 and 1939, served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
Early life Osmund Cleverly was born in 1891 at London to artist, Charles Frederick Moore Cleverly and Mary Isabel Cleverly. His baptism is recorded as having taken place on 10 December 1891 in the parish of St. Mary the Virgin. in 1920 with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1937 Coronation Honours, Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the King's Birthday Honours 1939, and Knighted in The King's Birthday Honours 1951.
In fiction Cleverly appears as Prime Minister Chamberlain's PPS throughout the 2017 novel Munich by Robert Harris.
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British civil servant and private secretary to Neville Chamberlain
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Osmund Somers Cleverly was born in 1891 in London.
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Osmund Somers Cleverly died on 21 October 1966 in Gomshall, Surrey.
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