Sir Gerald Hayden Phillips (born 9 February 1943)PHILLIPS, Sir (Gerald) Hayden
, ''Who's Who 2012'', A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011. is a retired English civl servant.

Early life

He was educated at

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, and

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Career

He joined the

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as an Assistant Principal in the Home Office in 1967, and was Economic Adviser, 1970–72, Principal 1972–74, and Assistant Secretary, and Principal Private Secretary to the

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(

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), 1974–76. From 1977 to 1979 he served as Deputy Chef de Cabinet to Roy Jenkins as

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. He returned to the Home Office as Assistant Secretary from 1979 to 1981, and then as Assistant Under-Secretary of State from 1981 to 1986. From 1986 to 1988 he was Deputy Secretary in the

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(Management and Personnel Office, subsequently Office of the Minister for the Civil Service). From 1988 to 1992 he was Deputy Secretary in

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. From 1992 to 1998 he was

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, Department for National Heritage (

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from 1997). From 1998 to 2004 he was

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and

of the

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( Department for Constitutional Affairs from 2003). Phillips was appointed a

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(CB) in 1989, promoted to a Knight Commander of the same Order (KCB) in 1998, and again promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of that Order (GCB) in 2002.

Post-civil service activity

After retiring, he undertook a review of the honours system in 2004. From 2006–7 he undertook a review of the funding of political parties, and in 2007 chaired inter-party talks on political funding. From 2004 to 2010 he was Chairman of the National Theatre. Since 2006 he has been Chairman of the Council of

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, having been a Council member since 1997. Since 1 January 2010 he has been

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for the Advertising Standards Authority. He played the part of Colonel Dent in the 2011 film of ''Jane Eyre''. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of

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in 2017.New Deputy Lieutenant
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Hayden Living people 1943 births Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Yale University alumni Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire Permanent Secretaries to the Lord Chancellor's Office Private secretaries in the British Civil Service English civil servants