Sir William Dennis Pile GCB MBE (1 December 1919 – 26 January 1997) was an English civil servant. Educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he served in the Army during the Second World War, reaching the rank of Major. After completing his degree, he entered the Ministry of Education in 1947, serving on the UK delegation to UNESCO and then spending a year at the Cabinet Office (1950–51) before returning to the Ministry, which became the Department for Education and Science (DES) in 1964. From 1966 to 1970, he spent short periods at the Ministry of Health and the Home Office, the later as deputy secretary from 1967. From 1970 to 1976, he was Permanent Secretary to the DES. He was then chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1976 and 1979. In retirement, he was a director of Nationwide Building Society and The Distillers Company.
References
- John A. Hudson, "Pile, Sir William Dennis", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2004). Retrieved 16 September 2021.
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| Preceded bySir Herbert Andrew | Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education and Science 1970–1976 |
Succeeded bySir James Arnot Hamilton |
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