Stout, William F.
Dates
- Existence: 1907 - 2005
Biographical Note
William F. Stout was born in 1907 and entered the civil service in 1925. He began as a clerk after being one of the first to sit the entrance exam for the new Northern Ireland civil service. In 1943, he was appointed as a principal in the Northern Ireland Ministry of Home Affairs. He rose steadily through the ranks of the service until, by 1964, he was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. From that position, he became Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and his last post was in the Ministry of Development, again as Permanent Secretary. He held this post in the Ministry of Development until he left the service in 1971. His years as head of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which coincided with the reinvigorated Irish Republican Army campaign of the late 1950s and 1960s, allowed him to work closely with some of the key political figures of the time, including Minister Brian Faulkner. Stout was the first civil servant in the Northern Irish service to enter the service as a clerk and end as a Permanent Secretary; he died in 2005 at the age of 98.
Source:
"Distinguished civil servant survived a turbulent period." The Irish Times. April 2, 2005. Obituaries.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
William F. Stout collection on Northern Ireland politics
The collection documents the career of William F. Stout, a civil servant in twentieth-century Northern Ireland. It includes materials on the Irish Civil War, the internment campaigns of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Saville Report). Materials include correspondence, clippings, handbooks, organizational charts, legal documents, pamphlets, photographs, and reports.
Collection is open for research. Some materials with confidentiality concerns have been closed for 75 years.