Ann Bowtell

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Dame Ann Bowtell

| honorific_suffix = DCB

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| birth_name = Ann Elizabeth Kewell

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|4|25|df=yes}}

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| nationality = British

| education =

| alma_mater = Girton College, Cambridge

| occupation = First Civil Service Commissioner

}}

Dame Ann Elizabeth Bowtell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DCB}} (née Kewell; born 25 April 1938){{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-25.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120425032742/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-25.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 25 April 2012 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=22 April 2014|date=25 April 2012|quote=Dame Ann Bowtell, former senior civil servant, 74 }} is a British retired civil servant. She was the UK's First Civil Service Commissioner from 1993 to 1995.{{cite news|last=Home news|title=Woman takes top job - Anne Elizabeth Bowtell|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/|access-date=22 April 2014|newspaper=The Times|date=12 February 1993}}{{cite news|last=Kevin |first=Bown |title=Cellnet chairman to monitor Whitehall |url=http://gale.cengage.co.uk/financial-times-historical-archive.aspx |accessdate=22 April 2014 |newspaper=Financial Times |date=16 March 1995 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330120353/http://gale.cengage.co.uk/financial-times-historical-archive.aspx |archivedate=30 March 2014 }}

Early life and education

Bowtell was born in 1938 to John Albert Kewell and Olive Rose Sims.{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=461 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}

Bowtell was educated at Kendrick Girls' School in Reading. She studied Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge,{{cite web|title=Educating Eve: Five Generations of Cambridge Women - Dame Ann Bowtell DCB|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/equality/characteristics/sex/eve/people/bowtell.html|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=22 April 2014}} where she was made an honorary fellow in 1997.[http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/contacts/people/honorary-fellows Honorary Fellows of Girton College]

In 1961, she married Michael John Bowtell. They have two sons and two daughters.

{{succession box |

before=Sir Michael Partridge |

title=Permanent Secretary of the
Department of Social Security |

years=1997–1999 |

after=Rachel Lomax

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| before = John Holroyd

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| title = First Civil Service Commissioner