Derek Mitchell (civil servant)

Sir Derek Jack Mitchell KCB CVO (5 March 1922 - 16 August 2009) was a British civil servant who served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister between 1964 and 1966, and Second Permanent Secretary at Her Majesty's Treasury between 1973 and 1977.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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v t e Principal private secretaries to the prime minister
Prime Minister's Office
Benjamin Disraeli	Montagu Corry (1868; 1874–1880) Charles William Fremantle (1868)
William Gladstone	(Sir) Algernon West (1868–1872; 1892–1894) Arthur Godley (1880–1882) Edward Walter Hamilton (1882–1885)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	Marquess of Granby (1885–1888) Schomberg Kerr McDonnell (1888–1892; 1895–1902)
Archibald Primrose	George Murray (1894–1895)
Arthur Balfour	John Satterfield Sandars (1902–1905)
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Arthur Ponsonby (1905–1908)
H. H. Asquith	Vaughan Nash (1908–1911) Maurice Bonham-Carter (1911–1916)
David Lloyd George	Sir John T. Davies (1916–1922) Sir Edward Grigg (1921–1922)
Bonar Law	Sir Patrick Gower (1922–1923) Sir Ronald Waterhouse (1922–1923)
Stanley Baldwin	Sir Patrick Gower (1923–1928) Sir Ronald Waterhouse (1923–1928) Robert Vansittart (1928–1929) Harold Vincent (1935–1936) Osmund Cleverly (1935–1937)
Ramsay MacDonald	Sir Patrick Gower (1924) Sir Ronald Waterhouse (1924) Robert Vansittart (1929–1930) Sir Patrick Duff (1930–1933) Alan Barlow (1933–1934) Harold Vincent (1934–1935)
Neville Chamberlain	Osmund Cleverly (1937–1939) Arthur Rucker (1939–1940)
Winston Churchill	Eric Seal (1940–1941) John Martin (1941–1945) Leslie Rowan (1945) Jock Colville (1951–1955) David Pitblado (1951–1955)
Clement Attlee	Leslie Rowan (1945–1947) Laurence Helsby (1947–1950) Denis Rickett (1950–1951) David Pitblado (1951)
Anthony Eden	David Pitblado (1955–1956) Frederick Bishop (1956–1957)
Harold Macmillan	Frederick Bishop (1957–1959) Timothy Bligh (1959–1963)
Alec Douglas-Home	Timothy Bligh (1963–1964)
Harold Wilson	Derek Mitchell (1964–1966) Michael Halls (1966–1970) Alexander Isserlis (1970) Robert Armstrong (1974–1975) Kenneth Stowe (1975–1976)
Edward Heath	Alexander Isserlis (1970) Robert Armstrong (1970–1974)
James Callaghan	Kenneth Stowe (1976–1979)
Margaret Thatcher	Kenneth Stowe (1979) Clive Whitmore (1979–1982) Robin Butler (1982–1985) Nigel Wicks (1985–1988) Andrew Turnbull (1988–1990)
John Major	Andrew Turnbull (1990–1992) Alex Allan (1992–1997)
Tony Blair	Alex Allan (1997) Sir John Holmes (1997–1999) Jeremy Heywood (1999–2003) Ivan Rogers (2003–2006) Olly Robbins (2006–2007)
Gordon Brown	Olly Robbins (2007) Tom Scholar (2007–2008) Sir Jeremy Heywood (2008–2010)
David Cameron	James Bowler (2010–2011) Chris Martin (2011–2015) Simon Case (2015–2016)
Theresa May	Simon Case (2016–2017) Peter Hill (2017–2019)
Boris Johnson	Peter Hill (2019) Martin Reynolds (2019–2022) Peter Wilson (2022)
Liz Truss	Nick Catsaras (2022)
Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer	Elizabeth Perelman (2022–)

Derek Mitchell (civil servant)

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