Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton,Baron Shackleton,was a British geographer,Royal Air Force officer and Labour Party politician.
Frederick Edward Robin Butler,Baron Butler of Brockwell,is a retired British civil servant,now sitting in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Andrew Turnbull,Baron Turnbull,is a British politician and civil servant who served as the head of Her Majesty's Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary between 2002 and 2005,when he was succeeded by Sir Gus O'Donnell. He now sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Burke Frederick St John Trend,Baron Trend,was a British civil servant and later Rector of Lincoln College,Oxford.
Ronald Ernest Dearing,Baron Dearing,was a senior civil servant before becoming chairman and chief executive of the Post Office Ltd.
Philip Allen,Baron Allen of Abbeydale,GCB was a British civil servant.
Robert Temple Armstrong,Baron Armstrong of Ilminster,was a British civil servant and life peer.
Field Marshal Richard Frederick Vincent,Baron Vincent of Coleshill,was a British Army officer. After serving with British Army of the Rhine he served with the Commonwealth Brigade in Malaysia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. He commanded the 12th Light Air Defence Regiment in Northern Ireland during the Troubles,for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order,and later commanded the 19th Airportable Brigade. Although he never served as one of the individual service heads,he went on to be Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff in the late 1980s and then Chief of the Defence Staff in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He subsequently became Chair of the Military Committee of NATO in the mid-1990s.
Augustine Thomas O'Donnell,Baron O'Donnell,is a former British senior civil servant and economist,who between 2005 and 2011 served as the Cabinet Secretary,the highest official in the British Civil Service.
Sir Richard Clive Mottram is a former British civil servant,who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary,Intelligence,Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.
Edward Ettingdere Bridges,1st Baron Bridges,was a British civil servant.
Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Michael Charles Charteris,Baron Charteris of Amisfield,was a British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II. Charteris was the longest-serving Assistant Private Secretary to the Sovereign,having served for over 18 years in that position. Later,he became Private Secretary to the Sovereign.
Michael Hastings Jay,Baron Jay of Ewelme,is a British politician and former diplomat. He sits as a Crossbench member of the House of Lords,and previously served as Ambassador to France and Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Nicholas Ian Macpherson,Baron Macpherson of Earl's Court,is a former senior British civil servant. He served as the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 2005 to 2016.
Patrick Richard Henry Wright,Baron Wright of Richmond,was a British diplomat who served as Head of HM Diplomatic Service.
Francis John Stephens Hopwood,1st Baron Southborough,was a British civil servant and solicitor. Over the course of his official career,Hopwood served as permanent secretary to the Board of Trade and the Colonial Office,a member of the Board of Admiralty,and secretary to the Irish Convention. In addition,he served on numerous commissions and was sent by the British government to Scandinavia in 1917 to secretly investigate rumours of Austrian peace proposals. Highly regarded as a civil servant,Hopwood was described by his obituarist as "a civil servant all the time,and a very correct one,whose personal views and contributions to discussions or action were never trumpeted in public".
Sir Stephen Augustus Lovegrove is a British civil servant who was the UK National Security Adviser from March 2021 to September 2022. He led the Shareholder Executive from 2007 to 2013,and then had permanent secretary roles at the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Ministry of Defence.
Ian Powell Bancroft,Baron Bancroft was a British senior civil servant.
Sir Brian James Proetel Fall is a retired British diplomat who was the UK's Special Representative for the South Caucasus 2002–12.
Sir Peter Lewis Gregson,was a British civil servant. He was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1985 to 1989,and of the Department of Trade and Industry from 1989 until his retirement in 1996.
