Thomas Herbert Sheepshanks

Sir Thomas Herbert Sheepshanks, KCB, KBE (10 January 1895 – 1 February 1964) was an English civil servant.

Sheepshanks was the youngest son of John Sheepshanks, bishop of Norwich; one of his sisters was the journalist and social worker Mary Sheepshanks. He was educated at Winchester College from 1908 to 1913, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1913. He served in the First World War, and did not complete his degree.

He was seconded to the Ministry of Reconstruction in 1943, where he drafted the government's white paper on social security which implemented Sir William Beveridge's report on the matter. After short spells in the Ministry of National Insurance (as deputy secretary, 1944) and the Treasury (as under-secretary from 1945 to 1946), he was permanent secretary of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning from 1946 to 1951, of the Ministry of Local Government and Planning in 1951, and of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government from 1951 to 1955. and promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in the 1948 New Year Honours; he was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1944 Birthday Honours.