About Wilfred Morton
Lived 1906 – 1981 (aged 74–75). Wilfred Morton was a British civil servant.
Sir William Wilfred Morton, KCB (1906 – 7 January 1981) was a Scottish civil servant. Educated at the University of Glasgow, he entered the civil service as an official in the Inland Revenue in 1927. He became a Commissioner of Inland Revenue in 1955, before serving in HM Treasury from 1958 to 1965, when he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise, retiring in 1969.
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Who was Wilfred Morton?
Scottish civil servant (1906-1981)
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Wilfred Morton was born in 1906.
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Wilfred Morton died in 1981.
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