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A century and a half after its publication, in 1854, the Northcote-Trevelyan Report still stands out as a major landmark, a crucial defining moment, in the development of the British civil service. And although he seems in many ways the very reverse of the conventional picture of a senior civil servant, its principal author and the driving force behind the report, Sir Charles Trevelyan, has to be regarded as one of the key historical leaders of the civil service, with the status of a kind of ‘founding father’ figure.
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Theakston, K. (1999). Charles Trevelyan. In: Leadership in Whitehall. Transforming Government. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27226-6_2
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