Norman Craven Brook, Baron Normanbrook GCB (29 April 1902 - 15 June 1967) was a British civil servant. Military Badge of the Order of the Bath Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-11, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, he entered Home Civil Service in 1925.He attained the grades of Principal in 1933 and Assistant Secretary in 1938. He was Principal Private Secretary to Sir John Anderson from 1938-42, Deputy Secretary (Civil) to the War Cabinet in 1942, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Reconstruction from 1943-5, Additional Secretary to the Cabinet from 1945-1946, and secretary of the Cabinet from 1947-62. He was also joint permanent secretary to HM Treasury and head of the Home Civil Service from 1956-62. Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley of Westdean (8 July 1882 – 4 January 1958) was a British statesman. ... A War Cabinet is committee formed by a government in time of war. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the United Kingdom, the non-political civil service head of a government department, as distinct from the political Secretary of State to whom he or she reports. ... In the British Government, the Cabinet Secretary, or more formally Secretary of the Cabinet, is the senior civil servant in charge of the Cabinet Office, a department that provides administrative support to the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and the government as a whole. ... The new eastern entrance to HM Treasury HM Treasury (Her/His Majestys Treasury) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for and putting into effect the UK Governments financial and economic policy. ... The civil service of the United Kingdom is the permanent bureaucracy that supports the political Government responsible to the Sovereign, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, in administering the United Kingdom. ...

He was awarded the CB in 1942, and promoted to KCB in 1946, and GCB in 1951. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1953. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Normanbrook in 1963. The titke became extinct on his death. Military Badge of the Order of the Bath Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-11, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ...

He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1964-7. The Board of Governors of the BBC is a group of twelve people who together regulate the BBC and represent the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners. ...