Brian Cubbon

Sir Brian Crossland Cubbon GCB (9 April 1928 – 20 May 2015) was a British senior civil servant and a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission.

Biography

Cubbon was born in Oswaldtwisle, Lancashire on 9 April 1928. His father, Edward Moore Cubbon was a primary school teacher and his mother was Anita Jane, née Crossland.[1] Cubbon was educated at Bury Grammar School under a scholarship and went on to study Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1949. He spent a while in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers for national service.[1]

He became Permanent Under Secretary of State (the senior civil servant in charge of a Government department) of the Northern Ireland Office from 1976 to 1979 and Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1979 to 1988. He was a Press Complaints Commission Commissioner from 1995 to 2002.[2]

Cubbon was injured in an IRA bomb explosion in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, was killed in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was blown up by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Cubbon's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke, was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured.[3]

He married art teacher, Lorin Richardson on 20 October 1956 and they had four children. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the Bath Empire (CB) in 1974, Knight Commander (KCB) in 1977 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) 1984, the highest rank of the Order of the Bath.[1] He died of a heart attack on 20 May 2015 at the age of 87.[4]

gollark: I agree that writing everything in intensely horrific JS is bad. I just don't think that much application software which is currently written in C would become worse if written in something safer and higher level.
gollark: I'm quite confident that the majority of user-facing ~~ones~~ computer systems have most of the development effort invested in random applications software which doesn't need to be hyperoptimized.
gollark: The top end grows, but most applications actually aren't that.
gollark: Computers are ridiculously powerful and more than capable of running most general purpose things anyone cares about very fast, if those things are sanely implemented. We know this because they can continue sort of usably working despite JS and such.
gollark: They're already very fast. Unless you're doing some very time sensitive data processing you can afford bounds checks and such in your code.

References
  1. Faulkner, David (10 January 2019). "Cubbon, Sir Brian Crossland (1928–2015)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. Brian Cubbon profile, BGSAlumni.com; accessed 6 May 2012.
  3. Sir Brian Cubbon profile Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, pcc.org.uk;accessed 6 May 2012.
  4. "Sir Brian Cubbon, civil servant - obituary". The Telegraph. London. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Robert Armstrong		 Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
1979–1988		 Succeeded by
Sir Clive Whitmore
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