Matthew Stevenson (civil servant)

Sir Matthew Stevenson, KCB, CMG (21 April 1910 – 28 May 1981) was a Scottish civil servant.

Stevenson attended the University of Glasgow before he entered HM Civil Service in 1931 as a junior tax inspector.

[3] He was promoted to be the ministry's Permanent Secretary in 1965, serving until 1966, when he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, serving until retirement in 1970, much of the time under the minister Richard Crossman, in whose published diaries Stevenson features.

[1] Shortly after his final appointment, he was promoted to Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1966 Birthday Honours.

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