Lloyd Bott
{{Short description|Australian public servant}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Lloyd Bott
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|DSC}} {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE}}
| image = Lloyd Bott.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Bott in 1976
| birth_name = Lloyd Forrester Bott
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|4|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Thornbury, Melbourne
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|9|8|1917|4|8|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| office1 = Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
| term_start1 = 23 December 1975
| term_end1 = 10 August 1977
| office2 = Secretary of the Department of Tourism and Recreation
| term_start2 = 9 January 1973
| term_end2 = 22 December 1975
| office3 = Acting Secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy
| term_start3 = 19 December 1972
| term_end3 = 20 December 1972
| office4 = Secretary of the Department of National Development
| term_start4 = 1 October 1969
| term_end4 = 19 December 1972
| nationality = Australian
| occupation = Public servant
| years_active =
| religion =
| spouse = Gwendoline Siddons (m. 1940)
| children = Michael, Susan and Stephen
}}
Lloyd Forrester Bott {{post-nominals|country=AUS|DSC}} {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE}} (8 April 1917 – 8 September 2004) was a senior Australian public servant.
Early life
Lloyd Bott was born on 8 April 1917 in Thornbury, Melbourne.{{cite news|url=http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/images/pioneers_images/LBott_Obit_Oct_2004.jpg|first=Jan Roberts|last=Billett|archive-date=15 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615204452/http://honeysucklecreek.net/images/pioneers_images/LBott_Obit_Oct_2004.jpg|title=War hero awarded DSC for gallantry and devotion to duty|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=20 October 2004}} He attended Northcote High School.
Career
After leaving high school, Bott qualified for the Commonwealth Public Service in 1933 and went to work in the Post Office in Sydney. He returned to Melbourne a year later and began to study at the University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Commerce, which he completed in 1948 when he returned from the Second World War, having served in the Australian Navy.
After his time as a 'yachtie' based in Dartmouth, Bott joined the Department of Supply, rising to become a Deputy Secretary in the department in 1967. He was responsible for the Administration of United States space projects in Australia during the time of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.{{citation|url=http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/supply/pioneers/lloyd_bott_nasa_photos.html|archive-date=17 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117081813/http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/supply/pioneers/lloyd_bott_nasa_photos.html|title=Lloyd Bott – My Association with NASA (photos)}}{{citation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117081853/http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/supply/pioneers/lloyd_bott_nasa.html|archive-date=17 January 2014|url=http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/supply/pioneers/lloyd_bott_nasa.html|title=Lloyd Bott – My Association with NASA}}{{cite press release|url=http://pmtranscripts.dpmc.gov.au/browse.php?did=2089|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117082145/http://pmtranscripts.dpmc.gov.au/browse.php?did=2089|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 January 2014|title=The Moon Landing: Prime Minister's Comments|date=21 July 1969|first=John|last=Gorton|author-link=John Gorton}}
John Gorton appointed Bott Secretary of the Department of National Development in 1969.{{citation|title=CA 56: Department of National Development [I], Central Office|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+56|publisher=National Archives of Australia|access-date=17 January 2014}} He was later Secretary of the Department of Tourism and Recreation, between 1973 and 1975.{{citation|title=CA 1491: Department of Tourism and Recreation, Central Office|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+1491|publisher=National Archives of Australia|access-date=17 January 2014}}
Bott retired from the public service in 1977, his final appointment being Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, which he had held since December 1975.{{citation|title=CA 1955: Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs [I], Central Office|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+1955|publisher=National Archives of Australia|access-date=17 January 2014}}
Awards and honours
Lloyd Bott was honoured with a Distinguished Service Cross in 1945, for his "gallantry, enthusiasm and great devotion to duty while serving in HM MGB 502 in hazardous operations."
In 2010, a street in the Canberra suburb of Casey was named Bott Crescent in Lloyd Bott's honour.{{citation|url=http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/place_search3?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkYyMDMuOS4yNDkuMyUyRlBsYWNlTmFtZXMlMkZQbGFjZURldGFpbHMuYXNweCUzRm9iamVjdElEJTNENjU4ODMmYWxsPTE%3D |title=Bott Crescent |publisher=ACT Government Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate |archive-date=27 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227111437/http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/place_search3?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkYyMDMuOS4yNDkuMyUyRlBsYWNlTmFtZXMlMkZQbGFjZURldGFpbHMuYXNweCUzRm9iamVjdElEJTNENjU4ODMmYWxsPTE%3D |url-status=dead }}
References
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{{s-bef|before=Bill Boswell}}
{{s-ttl|title=Secretary of the
Department of National Development |years=1969 – 1972}}
{{s-non|reason=Department abolished }}
{{s-new|reason=Department established}}
{{s-ttl|title=Acting Secretary of the
Department of Minerals and Energy|years=1972}}
{{s-aft|after=Lenox Hewitt }}
{{s-bef|before=Doug McKay (Acting)}}
{{s-ttl|title=Secretary of the
Department of Tourism and Recreation|years=1973 - 1975}}
{{s-non|reason=Department abolished }}
{{s-bef|before=Peter Wilenski|as=Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration}}
{{s-ttl|title=Secretary of the
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs|years=1975 – 1977}}
{{s-aft|after=Lou Engledow}}
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Category:Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Secretaries of the Australian Government Immigration Department