Lenox Hewitt
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Sir Lenox Hewitt OBE |
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| Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department | |
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In office 11 March 1968 – 12 March 1971 |
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| Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts | |
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In office 31 May 1971 – 19 December 1972 |
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| Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs | |
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In office 20 December 1972 – 9 January 1973 |
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| Secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy | |
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In office 20 December 1972 – 24 August 1975 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 May 1917 St Kilda, Victoria |
| Nationality |
 Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Hope Hewitt (née Tillyard) |
| Children | Patricia, Antonia, Hilary and Andrew |
| Occupation | Public servant |
Sir Lenox Hewitt OBE (born 7 May 1917) is a retired senior Australian public servant. He served the Commonwealth in various capacities for over 40 years (1939–80), principally as Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department under John Gorton (Liberal) 1968-71, and Secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy under Rex Connor (Labor) 1972-75. He later also served the governments of New South Wales and Western Australia. He remains active in public policy debate.
He is the father of Patricia Hewitt, a former Labour minister in Tony Blair's government in the United Kingdom.
Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt was born in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne on 7 May 1917. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Economics, which he completed on a part-time basis while employed by BHP on a traineeship.
From 1939 to 1946, he was Assistant Secretary to Sir Douglas Copland, who was Commonwealth Prices Commissioner and Special Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister.
He joined the Department of Postwar Reconstruction 1946–49 as an economist. In 1950 he was posted to London as Official Secretary and acting Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, remaining there till 1953.
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