Sir Clifford George Jarrett KBE CB (10 December 1909 – 9 July 1995), was a British civil servant who held the position of Permanent Secretary in various Government departments in the 1960s.
[4][5] While his father was away during the First World War, the family home in Dover was bombed and the Jarretts resided in Canterbury from 1917 to 1919.
After winning an open scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he graduated in 1931 with a double first in the modern languages tripos.
[1][2] Jarrett entered the British Civil Service in 1932, joining the Home Office before transferring to the Admiralty two years later.
[6][7] In 1964 Jarrett transferred to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance as Permanent Under-Secretary, until it merged with the Ministry of Health to form the Department of Health and Social Security, where, as Permanent Secretary from 1968 until his retirement in 1970, his relationship with the Minister, Richard Crossman, was not always easy.