Sir Antony Derek Maxwell OultonGCB 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.
Oulton was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and then read law at King's College, Cambridge, where he took a double first.[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. He was Private Secretary to three successive Lord Chancellors, the Earl Kilmuir, the Viscount Dilhorne, and Lord Gardiner, and also served as Secretary to the Beeching Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1966–69.[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. He was knighted in 1984,[3] appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985 and in 1989 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.[4]
He was awarded a University of Cambridge PhD on the basis of a jointly-authored practitioner text on legal aid and advice, and after retiring from the civil service entered academia, becoming a Research Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1990. He subsequently became a Life Fellow and, until his retirement in June 2007, supervised undergraduate students in constitutional law.[3] Sir Derek received a standing ovation from the College Law Society following his retirement at the Annual Lawyers' Dinner in 2007. A bench sits beside the River Cam in the grounds of the college in his honour.
On 8 May 2008, Oulton addressed the Cambridge University Gray's Inn Association, giving a talk entitled "A Life in the Law".[5]
In 1955 Oulton married Margaret Oxley, who predeceased him in 1989, had four children by her[3] and died on 1 August 2016[6] at the age of 88.
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^Staff (4 August 2016). "Sir Derek Oulton, barrister and civil servant – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
^ abcdeGreenwood, Christopher (October 2017). "In Memoriam; Sir Derek Oulton Life Fellow" (PDF). Magdalene College Magazine. 61. pp. 21–24.
^Staff (4 May 2018). "ORDER OF SERVICE AND CEREMONY OF THE OATH AND INSTALLATION OF KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH" (PDF). Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
^Cambridge University Gray's Inn Association
^Staff (4 August 2016). "Sir Derek Oulton". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
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