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Sir Anthony James Merifield, KCVO, CB (born 1934) is a retired British civil servant.

Born in 1934, Merifield attended Wadham College, Oxford. After graduating and completing National Service, he joined HM Overseas Civil Service in 1958 and served in Kenya until 1965, when he returned to the United Kingdom to work in the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). There, he was promoted to Assistant Secretary in 1971 and Under-Secretary seven years later; in 1982, he moved to the Northern Ireland Office and then in 1986 returned to the DHSS as a director in the NHS Management Board. He then worked as Head of the Senior and Public Appointments Group in the Cabinet Office (CO) from 1991 to 1994, when he became Ceremonial Officer in the CO. On retirement in 2000,[1] he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year Honours.[2] He had also been appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1994 New Year Honours.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Merifield, Sir Anthony (James)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  2. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1999 (issue 55710), p. 4.
  3. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1993 (issue 53527), p. 3.
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