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Sir Patrick Nairne led a remarkable life: he had a ringside view of the Falklands Crisis; he was involved in campaigns in North Africa and Sicily with the Seaforth Highlanders; and he oversaw the consultation process in Hong Kong ahead of the territory being handed back to China. Patrick was the most notable British civil servant of the twentieth century. He rose to become Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Security and a member of the Privy Council, and in his later years, after stepping down as master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, he began to write about his astonishing life and career. In The Coincidence of Novembers, Patrick's son - curator Sandy Nairne - assembles his father's work, along with further autobiographical pieces found in his papers, into a single volume that covers the vast range of his thinking, his first-hand experience of some of the most significant events in recent history, and his meditations on a life spent working for the public good
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