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to artist, Charles Frederick Moore Cleverly and Mary Isabel Cleverly. His baptism is recorded as having taken place on 10 December 1891 in the
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This article about a person involved in governance in the United Kingdom or its predecessor states is a
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and then Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. In this capacity he served the
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Cleverly appears as Prime Minister Chamberlain's PPS throughout the 2017 novel
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Cleverly married Priscilla Simpson, daughter of Prof. Frederick Moore Simpson
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He died on 21 October 1966 with his funeral held at St. James's Church in
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British civil servant and private secretary to Neville Chamberlain.
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of St. Mary the Virgin. For his schooling he was educated at
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Index

CB
CVO

Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Sir Harold Vincent
Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Sir Harold Vincent
Arthur Rucker
London
Gomshall
Surrey
Charles St George Cleverly
Rugby School
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford
Civil servant
CVO
(1937)
CB
(1939)
Knight Bachelor
(1951)
British Army
Captain
Queen's Regiment (TF)
First World War
CB
CVO
British civil servant

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