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Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton

British civil servant and crossbench peer (born 1942)

Summary

British civil servant and crossbench peer (born 1942)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
name	The Lord Wilson of Dinton
honorific-suffix
image	Official portrait of Lord Wilson of Dinton crop 2, 2019.jpg
caption	Official portrait, 2019
office	Cabinet Secretary
Head of the Home Civil Service
term_start	1998
term_end	2002
primeminister	Tony Blair
predecessor	Robin Butler
successor	Andrew Turnbull
office1	Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
term_start1	1994
term_end1	1997
predecessor1	Sir Clive Whitmore
successor1	Sir David Omand
office2	Member of the House of Lords
status2	Lord Temporal
termlabel2	Life peerage
term_start2	18 November 2002
birth_date
birth_place	Glamorgan, Wales
education	Radley College
alma_mater	Clare College, Cambridge

|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |honorific-suffix = Head of the Home Civil Service

Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, (born 11 October 1942) is a member of the British House of Lords and former Cabinet Secretary.

Career

Richard Wilson was born in Glamorgan. He was educated at Radley College (1956–60 and where he much later chaired the College Council (the governing body) and Clare College, Cambridge (1961–65), where he was awarded the degree of Master of Laws (LLM). He was called to the Bar but, rather than practise, entered the Civil Service as an assistant principal in the Board of Trade in 1966.

He subsequently served in a number of departments including 12 years in the Department of Energy where his responsibilities included nuclear power policy, the privatisation of Britoil, personnel and finance. He headed the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office under Margaret Thatcher from 1987 to 1990 and after two years in the Treasury was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment in 1992.

He became Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office in 1994 and Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service in January 1998, retiring in 2002.

Wilson was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1991 New Year Honours, promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in the 1997 New Year Honours and to Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in the 2001 New Year Honours.

After retiring as Cabinet Secretary, he was created a life peer on 18 November 2002 with the title Baron Wilson of Dinton, of Dinton in the County of Buckinghamshire. In September of that year, he was made Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has variously been a Non-executive Director of British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, Chairman of C. Hoare & Co, a Non-executive Director of Xansa and Chair of the Board of Patrons of The Wilberforce Society.

References

[http://www.radley.org.uk/or/OldRadleian/2006/pdfs/Gazette.pdf Old Radleian 2006] {{webarchive. link. (22 July 2011)
Wilson, Richard. (June 2009). "UK Civil Nuclear Energy: What Lessons?". British Academy Review.
Stevenson, Alexander. (2013). "The Public Sector: Managing The Unmanageable". Kogan Page Limited.
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