Christopher France (civil servant)

Sir Christopher Walter France, GCB (2 April 1934 – 21 October 2014) was an English civil servant.

[1] Educated at East Ham Grammar School and New College, Oxford, he completed his National Service in the Royal Marines.

He was then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence from 1992 to 1995, which coincided with the restructuring of the British military following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

His wife Valerie Edith Larman was head of the City of London School for Girls from 1986 to 1995.

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