John Patrick Carswell CB FRSL (30 May 1918 – 12 November 1997) was an English civil servant and author who served as Secretary of the British Academy from 1978 to 1983.
[1] Carswell completed his degree course at Oxford in 1940, during the Second World War, and then joined the British Army.
[1] He became Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance in 1955 and was at HM Treasury from 1961 to 1964.
While at the Treasury, Professor Asa Briggs invited Carswell to deliver a series of lectures in 1963 at the University of Sussex on the European context of the English Revolution of 1688.
[1] Later the same year he transferred to become Under-secretary at the Department of Education and Science and Ministry of Health, remaining until 1974.