Sir Brian David Hayes, GCB (5 May 1929 – 31 May 2022) was an English civil servant."Hayes, Sir Brian (David)"
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, 2021). Retrieved 2 February 2022. Educated at

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and

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, he joined the

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in 1956 and was its

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from 1979 to 1983. He was then Permanent Secretary of the

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from 1983 to 1989, jointly until 1985. He subsequently held directorships at

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, Tate and Lyle, and

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.Keith Dowding, ''The Civil Service, Theory and Practice in British Politics'' (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 123.

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1929 births 2022 deaths English civil servants People educated at Norwich School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath {{UK-gov-bio-stub