Sir Maurice Joseph Dean, KCB,

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(16 September 1906 – 7 April 1978) was an English civil servant. Educated at

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, he entered the civil service in 1929 as an official in the

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, where he remained until 1946 when he moved to the Control Commission for Germany and Austria and the German Section of the

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; two years later, he moved to the

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; he subsequently moved to

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(1952) and then worked as a Second Secretary in the

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(1952–55). Dean was the

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of the Air Ministry from 1955 to 1963; after serving from 1963 to 1964 as a Second Secretary at HM Treasury, was the Joint Permanent Secretary of the

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in 1964 and then Permanent Secretary of the

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from 1964 to 1966. He was a director of the

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from 1966 to 1971. His brother was the mathematician W. R. Dean."Obituary: Sir Maurice Dean", ''The Times'' (London), 11 April 1978, p. 18. ."Dean, Sir Maurice (Joseph)"
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, 2021). Retrieved 17 August 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dean, Maurice 1906 births 1978 deaths English civil servants Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George