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Mary Hedley-Miller

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Dame Mary Elizabeth Hedley-Miller, DCVO, CB (née Ashe; 1923–2010) was a British civil servant.

Born Mary Elizabeth Ashe on 5 September 1923, she was educated at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, before joining HM Treasury in 1945 as a civil servant. In 1950, she married Roger Hedley-Miller and took his name. She was promoted to under-secretary at the Treasury in 1973 and served there until she moved to the Cabinet Office in 1983 to be Ceremonial Officer. She retired in 1988[1] and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the following New Year Honours,[2] having been appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1983 Birthday Honours.[3] She died on 20 March 2010.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hedley-Miller, Dame Mary (Elizabeth)", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1988 (issue 51578), p. 3.
  3. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 June 1983 (issue 49375), p. 3.