Patrick Nairne

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| name = Sir Patrick Nairne

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| birth_date = 15 August 1921

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| death_date = 4 June 2013 (aged 91)

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| nationality = British

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| occupation = Civil Servant

| alma_mater = Radley College
University College, Oxford

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| spouse = Penelope Chauncy Bridges ({{small|1948–2014}})

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Sir Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne, {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|MC|PC}} (15 August 1921 – 4 June 2013{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10098955/Sir-Patrick-Nairne.html |title=Sir Patrick Nairne |newspaper=The Telegraph|date=4 June 2013 |accessdate=2013-06-05}}) was a senior British civil servant.Anne Perkins and Jane Ashley, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6494601.stm Shape Up, Sir Humphrey], BBC News, 28 March 2007. His career started in the Admiralty. He eventually became Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Security and Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford (1981–88).[http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm The Governors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926002401/http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm |date=26 September 2006 }}, The Ditchley Foundation, UK.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6797033.ece Birthdays Aug 15–16]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Times, 15 August 2009.

Nairne was a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, appointed in 1982 when he became a member of Lord Franks' official inquiry into the Falklands War, and a governor of the Ditchley Foundation. He was Chancellor of the University of Essex from 1982 to 1997.{{cite web|title=University of Essex Calendar|url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/academic/docs/cal/former.shtm|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007233550/http://www.essex.ac.uk/academic/docs/cal/former.shtm|archivedate=7 October 2012}} He was an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford.Honorary Fellows. University College Record, October 2010, page 14. Nairne was the first Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 1991 to 1996.

Family

Nairne's six children include Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery,Jeremy Musson, [http://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/fineart/article/252432/Interview-Sandy-Nairne.html Interview: Sandy Nairne], Country Life, 17 April 2008. and Andrew Nairne, Director of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.{{cn|reason=ref needed for Andrew Nairne|date=September 2008}}

References

External links

{{History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group ID}}
[https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1746 The Papers of Sir Patrick Nairne] held at Churchill Archives Centre

{{s-ttl|title=Second Permanent Secretary at the
Cabinet Office|years=1973–1975}}

{{succession box

| title = Permanent Secretary of the
Department of Health and Social Security

| before = Sir Philip Rogers

| after = Sir Kenneth Stowe

| years = 1975–1981

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{{succession box

| before=Alan Bullock

| title=Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford

| years=1981–1988

| after=Sir Brian Smith