John Jeffrey (civil servant)

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Sir John Jeffrey KCB, CBE, FRSE (1872 -19 June 1947) [1] [2] was a Scottish civil servant. Born in Chirnside, Berwickshire [3] , he served as Secretary to the Department of Health for Scotland in 1929 [4] and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1933 to 1937 [5] . He held long associations relating to public health and poor law during his career. [6] He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1934 Birthday Honours.

In 1937 he served as a member of the Executive Committee for the Arrangements of the Coronation of Their Majesties (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). [7] . He was Chairman of the General Board of Control for Scotland [8] [5] , the body responsible for overseeing mental health services and asylums, from 1939 until his retirement in 1945 [4] .

He published article in 1939 analysing the trend toward centralisation of Scottish administration within the ministerial system The Origin and Growth of the Government Departments Concerned with Scottish Affairs in the journal Public Administration [9] .

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [3] He married to Jean Stuart Jeffrey (née Sneddon), [1] and his son James Jeffrey [10] became a prominent Scottish surgeon.

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  1. 1 2 "John Jeffrey (1872-1947) - Find a Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  2. ↑ "Special to The New York Times Sir John Jeffrey". The New York Times. 20 June 1957. p. 19. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  3. 1 2 "RSE Fellows - 1783 - 2002. A-K | PDF | Further Education". Scribd. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  4. 1 2 "Reports of Societies". British Medical Journal Publishing. 1 (4436): 62–63. 1946-01-12. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4436.62. ISSN   0007-1447.
  5. 1 2 "Local Government (Scotland) Bill Hl - Hansard - UK Parliament". hansard.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  6. ↑ "Sir John Jeffrey - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  7. ↑ "The London Gazette, Issue 34353, 25 December 1936, p. 8365". The London Gazette. The London Gazette. 25 December 1936. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  8. ↑ "Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 71)". Legislation.gov.uk. 1857. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
  9. ↑ Jeffrey, John (1939). "The Origin and Growth of the Government Departments Concerned with Scottish Affairs". Public Administration. 17 (1): 20–31. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1939.tb03023.x. ISSN   1467-9299.
  10. ↑ "National Records of Scotland. Statutory Register of Births, Edinburgh, 1904". Scotlands People. 12 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-09-12.
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