Sir Antony Derek Maxwell Oulton GCB QC (14 October 1927 – 1 August 2016)[1][2] was a British senior civil servant, who was Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, United Kingdom from 1982–1989.
[3] He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn (where he was later a Bencher), and was in private practice as a barrister in Nairobi until 1960, when he joined the Lord Chancellor's Department.
[3] Oulton's final civil service position was as Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 1982–89.
[3] Sir Derek received a standing ovation from the College Law Society following his retirement at the Annual Lawyers' Dinner in 2007.
On 8 May 2008, Oulton addressed the Cambridge University Gray's Inn Association, giving a talk entitled "A Life in the Law".