Sir Brian Crossland Cubbon GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (born 9 April 1928) is a former senior civil servant

British Civil Service

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 and is currently a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission

Press Complaints Commission

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Cubbon was educated at Bury Grammar School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He became Permanent Under Secretary of State (the senior civil servant in charge of a Government department) of the Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Office

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 from 1976 to 1979 and Permanent Secretary

Permanent Secretary

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 of the Home Office

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 from 1979 to 1988. He was a Press Complaints Commission

Press Complaints Commission

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 Commissioner from 1995 to 2002.

Cubbon was injured in an IRA

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 bomb explosion in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs

Christopher Ewart-Biggs

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, was killed in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was blown up by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Cubbon's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke, was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured.