Sir Henry Gabriel Ware, KCB (23 July 1912 – 12 October 1989) was a British lawyer and government official.

Career

Born on 23 July 1912, Ware was educated at

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and

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; he was admitted a

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in 1938,"Ware, Sir Henry (Gabriel)"
''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 4 November 2018. and joined the

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in February 1939 as a Junior Legal Assistant. After the

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broke out, he joined the

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and became a

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; he was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1939, and was later promoted to

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. For the decade after the war, he served as a legal adviser to the

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and was briefly involved in the establishment of the

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, before moving in 1955 to the

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and the

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, where he was concerned with such issues as the status of the Sovereign Bases in

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and the future of the naval dockyards in

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. In the mid-1960s he was Principal Legal Adviser to the Department of Economic Affairs, and worked to draft parts of the July Measures (1966) to stave off a devaluation of the

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(this failed to prevent to the 1967 Sterling crisis)."Sir Henry Ware", ''The Times'' (London), 16 October 1989, p. 18. In 1969, he became Deputy Treasury Solicitor, and in 1971 secured promotion to be

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, serving until 1975. Having been appointed a Companion of the

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in 1971, Ware was promoted to Knight Commander the following year. In retirement, he lived in

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. He died on 12 October 1989, three years after his wife Gloria, ''née'' Platt, had died. Three of their four children were alive at the time of his death.

References

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