Frank O'Grady
{{Short description|Australian public servant}}
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| office1 = Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department
| term_start1 = 28 September 1961
| term_end1 = 8 December 1965
| birth_name = Francis Phillip O’Grady
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| birth_place = Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia
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| death_place = Woodville, Adelaide, South Australia
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Francis Phillip "Frank" O’Grady {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE}} (9 October 1900 – 6 May 1981) was a senior Australia public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from September 1961 until December 1965.
Life and career
Frank O'Grady was born on 9 October 1900 in Thebarton, Adelaide the first child of Hannah and John Michael O'Grady.{{citation|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ogrady-francis-phillip-15400|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141121104408/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ogrady-francis-phillip-15400|archivedate=21 November 2014|url-status=live|title=O'Grady, Francis Phillip (1900–1981)|first=Peter|last=Putnis|publisher=Australian National University|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography}}
He was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in September 1961.{{citation|title=CA 9: Postmaster-General's Department, Central Administration|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+9|publisher=National Archives of Australia|accessdate=21 November 2014|archive-date=11 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311101431/https://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/DumpSession.asp?C=Initialise.inc&S=Open%20P_RECORDSEARCH_SERVICE%20SQLSERVER_ODBC&E=%5BMicrosoft%5D%5BODBC+Driver+17+for+SQL+Server%5D%5BSQL+Server%5DIncorrect+syntax+near+%27207.241%27.|url-status=dead}}
O'Grady retired from the Commonwealth Public Service and his position at the Postmaster-General's Department in December 1965.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105864736|title=Postal chief named|page=3|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=1 October 1965}}
Awards
In 1964 O'Grady was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He was appointed a knight commander of the papal Order of St Gregory the Great in 1969.
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Category:Australian public servants
Category:Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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