Christopher Bullock

For the eighteenth century writer and actor, see Christopher Bullock (actor).

Sir Christopher Bullock
KCB, CBE
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Air
In office
1931–1936
Preceded bySir Walter Nicholson
Succeeded bySir Donald Banks
Personal details
Born(1891-11-10)10 November 1891
Died16 May 1972(1972-05-16) (aged 80)
SpouseBarbara May Lupton
Children2

Sir Christopher Llewellyn Bullock, KCB, CBE (10 November 1891 – 16 May 1972), a prominent member of the Bullock family, was Permanent Under-Secretary at the British Air Ministry from 1931 to 1936. Appointed at the age of 38, he remains one of the youngest civil servants to have headed a British government department.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Geoffrey-Lloyd, "Bullock, Sir Christopher Llewellyn (1891–1972)", rev. Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  2. ^ Grey, C. J., A History of the Air Ministry, 1942
  3. ^ Joubert, Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip, The Third Service, p. 107
  4. ^ Chapman, Richard A., Ethics in the British Civil Service, 1988 ISBN 978-0-415-00334-6, p. 144