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 In retirement, he was a Church Commissioner from 1982 to 1996.[1][2][3][4] In 2006, he deposited an unpublished personal memoir from 2002 and related papers at the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge.[5]

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  1. ↑ "Herbecq, Sir John (Edward)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Peter Barberis, The Elite of the Elite: Permanent Secretaries in the British Higher Civil Service (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996), p. 244. ISBN 9781855214798.
  3. ↑ "Sir John Edward Herbecq (at School 1933–1940)", Old Cicestrians. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Sir John Herbecq; b 28.05.1922 d 07.09.2021", Daily Telegraph (announcements), 10 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "A Personal Memoir by Sir John Herbecq", ArchiveSearch (University of Cambridge). Retrieved 20 September 2021.


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