Sir Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne, GCB MC PC (15 August 1921 – 4 June 2013[1]) was a senior British civil servant.
He eventually became Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Security and Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford (1981–88).
[3][4] Nairne was a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, appointed in 1982 when he became a member of Lord Franks' official inquiry into the Falklands War, and a governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
[6] Nairne was the first Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 1991 to 1996.
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