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Patrick Gower (civil servant)

Sir
Patrick Gower
KBE CB CVO
Gower in 1927
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
1922–1928
Serving with Ronald Waterhouse
Prime Minister
Preceded bySir Edward Grigg
Succeeded byRobert Vansittart
Personal details
Born
Robert Patrick Malcolm Gower

(1887-08-18)18 August 1887
Cardigan, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Died31 August 1964(1964-08-31) (aged 77)
Henley, Oxfordshire, England
Spouses
  • Nancy Barkley
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1913; died 1940)​
  • H. Margaret Hawdon
    ​
    (m. 1941)​
RelationsSir Robert Gower
Children2
EducationMarlborough College
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge
Awards

Sir Robert Patrick Malcolm Gower KBE CB CVO (18 August 1887 – 31 August 1964) was a British civil servant who served as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister between 1922 and 1928.

Early life

Patrick Gower was born in Cardigan, Pembrokeshire,[1] the younger son of Captain Erasmus Gower of Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Marlborough College and gained a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2]

Career

Gower served as Private Secretary to Austen Chamberlain as Chancellor of the Exchequer and as Lord Privy Seal, from 1919 to 1922.[3] He served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, during which time he served three different prime ministers; Bonar Law; Stanley Baldwin; and Ramsay MacDonald, from 1922 to 1928.[4][5] After leaving 10 Downing Street, Gower served as Chief Press Officer to the Conservative Party from 1929 to 1939.[6][2] In 1939 he left Whitehall to become chairman of advertising firm Charles F. Higham, where he remained until retirement.[7]

He was awarded an Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1922 New Years Honours list;[8] a Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1923 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours;[9] and was knighted (KBE) for services to the Prime Minister.[2] in the 1924 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[10]

Personal life

He married Nancy Barkley in 1913, with whom he had one son and one daughter. Upon her death in 1940 he remarried in March 1941 to H. Margaret Hawdon.[7] He died at home in Henley, Oxfordshire, on 31 August 1964.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Gower, Sir (Robert) Patrick (Malcolm), (18 Aug. 1887–31 Aug. 1964), President of Charles F. Higham Ltd, since 1956 (Chairman, 1935–56)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u53298. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
  3. ^ Churchill, Randolph Spencer; Gilbert, Martin (1966). Winston S. Churchill. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-25104-1.
  4. ^ Jones, Thomas (1969). Whitehall Diary. Oxford U.P.
  5. ^ The Economist. Economist Newspaper Limited. 1928.
  6. ^ The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. Saturday Review. 1928.
  7. ^ a b c "OBITUARY: Sir Patrick Gower". The Times. 1 September 1964. p. 12. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Page 10713 | Supplement 32563, 30 December 1921 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  9. ^ "Page 3739 | Supplement 32827, 25 May 1923 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  10. ^ "Page 1263 | Supplement 32906, 8 February 1924 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
Government offices
Preceded by Principal Private Secretary
to the Prime Minister
1922–1928
alongside Ronald Waterhouse 		Succeeded by
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