Dame Mary Elizabeth Hedley-Miller, DCVO, CB (née Ashe; 5 September 1923 – 20 March 2010) was a British civil servant.
Born Mary Elizabeth Ashe on 5 September 1923, she was educated at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, before joining HM Treasury in 1945 as a civil servant. In 1950, she married Roger Hedley-Miller and took his name. She was promoted to under-secretary at the Treasury in 1973 and served there until she moved to the Cabinet Office in 1983 to be Ceremonial Officer. She retired in 1988.[1] She died on 20 March 2010, aged 86.[1]
Honours
editShe was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1989 New Year Honours,[2] having been previously appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1983.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Hedley-Miller, Dame Mary (Elizabeth)", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 1 July 2019.(subscription required)
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1988 (issue 51578), p. 3.
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 June 1983 (issue 49375), p. 3.