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Sir Ronald Montague Joseph Harris, KCVO, CB (6 May 1913 – 22 January 1995) was a British civil servant and senior Church of England layman. His first career was in the Civil Service (UK), where he was assigned to the India Office and Burma Office (1936–1947), apart from a period during the Second World War during which he served as private secretary to Sir Edward Bridges, the Cabinet Secretary (1939–1943). After training at the Imperial Defence College, he served in HM Treasury, with a secondment as Second Crown Estate Commissioner (1955–1960). He then left the Civil Service to work for the Church of England; he served as First Church Estates Commissioner from 1969 and additionally chairman of the Central Board of Finance of Church of England from 1978, until he retired in 1982.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Osmond, Paul (11 February 1995). “Obituary: Sir Ronald Harris”. The Independent. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ^ “Harris, Sir Ronald (Montague Joseph), (6 May 1913–22 Jan. 1995), First Church Estates Commissioner, 1969–82; Chairman, Central Board of Finance of Church of England, 1978–82”. Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
- ^ Robert, Armstrong (25 May 2006). “Harris, Sir Ronald Montague Joseph (1913–1995)”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58206. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
