Mary Smieton

Dame Mary Guillan Smieton, DBE (5 December 1902 – 23 January 2005) was a British civil servant. She served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education between 1959 and 1963, only the second woman to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary. Prior to this, she was Permanent Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education, having joined the civil service in 1925. She studied at Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway, University of London) and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[1][2]

References
  1. Smieton, Mary. "Obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  2. Smieton, Mary. "Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2019.


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