Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 23 January 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
Preceded by
Tom Scholar
Succeeded by
James Bowler
In office 4 June 1999 – 10 July 2003
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Sir John Holmes
Succeeded by
Ivan Rogers
Personal details
Born
Jeremy John Heywood
(1961-12-31)31 December 1961 Glossop, Derbyshire, England
Died
4 November 2018(2018-11-04) (aged 56) London, England
Spouse
Suzanne Cook
(m. 1997)
Children
3
Alma mater
Hertford College, Oxford (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc)
Jeremy John Heywood, Baron Heywood of Whitehall, GCB, CVO (31 December 1961 – 4 November 2018) was a British civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May from 2012 to 2018 and Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 to 2018. He served as the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1999 to 2003 and 2008 to 2010. He also served as Downing Street Chief of Staff and the first Downing Street Permanent Secretary.[1][2] After he was diagnosed with lung cancer,[3] he took a leave of absence from June 2018, and retired on health grounds on 24 October 2018, receiving a life peerage; he died a fortnight later on 4 November 2018.
^Senior Appointments, 10 Downing Street website, 23 January 2008, archived from the original on 16 January 2010, retrieved 19 January 2010
^"Cabinet Office Structure Charts" (PDF). Cabinet Office HM Government. May 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
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