Maurice Timbs
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1917
Maurice Timbs | |
|---|---|
| Secretary of the Department of Services and Property | |
| In office 16 January 1973 – 7 October 1975 | |
| Secretary of the Department of Administrative Services (II) | |
| In office 7 October 1975 – 22 December 1975 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maurice Carmel Timbs 1917 |
| Died | 1994 (aged 76–77) |
| Spouse | Heather Joan Woodhead |
| Occupation | Public servant |
Maurice Carmel Timbs AO (1917–1994) was a senior Australian public servant and administrator.
Born in 1917, Timbs was educated at the University of Sydney, where he was a rugby league footballer.[1][2] He joined the Australian Public Service in 1936.[3]
In 1943, during his war service with AIF artillery,[1] he married Heather Joan Woodhead in the first service wedding in the Northern Territory.[4]
After the war, he held a number of positions including Executive Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission in the early 1970s.[3] He was promoted to his first Secretary position in January 1973, as head of the new Department of Services and Property.[5]
Between 1976 and 1984, Timbs was a Christmas Island Phosphate Commissioner.[6]
