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The Rt Hon The Lord Richard Wilson Of Dinton GCB

Richard Wilson

Full Title: The Rt Hon The Lord Richard Wilson Of Dinton GCB

Category: Honorary Bencher

Bench Call Date: 12-05-1998

Bio:

Education: Radley College 1956-60; Clare College, Cambridge 1961-65; MA; LLM; Exhibitioner 1964

Admission: 6 November 1963; Call 23 November 1965; Entered the Civil Service 1966; CB 1991; Permanent Secretary, D of E 1992-94; Permanent Under Secretary, Home Office 1994-97; KCB 1997; Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service 1998-2002; GCB 2001; Created Life Peer (Lord Wilson of Dinton) 2002; Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 2002-12; Chairman of C Hoare & Co, the private bank, 2006 -

Recreations: Cinema; Gardening

Clubs: Brooks’s