Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby
Laurence Norman Helsby, Baron Helsby, of Logmore in the County of Surrey GCB KBE (* April 27, 1908; † 5 December 1978) was a British government official who in 1968 as a Life Peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords been.
Life
Helsby started after visiting the Sedbergh School in Cumbria studying at Keble College, University of Oxford, and was afterwards 1930-1931 first Lecturer at University College of the South West of England, before he then 1931-1945 Lecturer in Economics at the University of Durham taught.
After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of July 5, 1945, he entered the civil service (Civil Service ), and was first assistant secretary of the Treasury (HM Treasury ) and after 1947-1950 Senior Private Secretary ( Principal Private Secretary ) Prime Minister Clement Attlee. For his services there he was on January 2, 1950 Member ( Companion ) of the Order of the Bath (CB).
After a subsequent use as a civil servant in the Ministry of Food (Ministry of Food) Helsby acted as the successor of Paul Sinker between 1954 and his replacement by George Mallaby 1959 the first commissioner of the Commission for Public Service ( First Commissioner of the Civil Service Commission ). For his outstanding service, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE ) on 1 January 1955, and from then led the suffix " Sir ".
After that, he was 1959-1963 Permanent Secretary (Permanent Secretary ), and thus the highest government official in the Ministry of Labour ( Ministry of Labour ) and was chosen for its local services on January 1, 1963, the Grand Cross ( Knight Grand Cross ) of the Order of the Bath (GCB ) honored. He was then in 1963 the successor to Norman Brook as a Common Permanent Secretary (Joint Permanent Secretary ) of the Treasury, where he worked until 1968 in this position with William Armstrong, during 1968 Douglas Allen, Baron Croham as their common successor sole Employed became Secretary of the Treasury again.
He took over in 1963 at the same time as the successor to Norman Brook the function of head of the civil service ( Head of Her Majesty's Civil Service ), while at the same time exerted by Brook function of the Cabinet Secretary Burke Trend was taken. Successor as head of the civil service in 1968 was also appointed William Armstrong.
By Letters Patent of May 21, 1968 was due to the Helsby Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Helsby, of Logmore in the County of Surrey raised to the peerage, and was thus until his death in the House of Lords as a member of.