Background
WAY, Richard was born on September 15, 1914 in London. Son of Frederick Way and Clara Way (nee Willetts).
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WAY, Richard was born on September 15, 1914 in London. Son of Frederick Way and Clara Way (nee Willetts).
Polytechnic Secondary School, London.
Way left school at 18 and joined the War Office as an executive officer working in the finance department of the ministry in London and Hong Kong. From 1949 to 1952 he worked with the British Army of the Rhine organising the army"s civilian workforce. In 1955, Way was promoted to Deputy Secretary, and, in 1956, was recommended for the post of Permanent Under-Secretary.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden, considered him to be too young for this level of seniority, and he was moved to the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Supply.
In 1960, he returned to the War Office as Permanent Under-Secretary, and, when the War Office was merged with the Ministry of Defence, he became Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation in 1963, where he remained until 1966 when he left the civil service for a career in business. He served as chairman of the Greater London Council"s London Transport Executive from 1970 to 1974.
Way served as Chairman of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 from 1978 to 1987. He received an honorary doctorate in science (Honorary Doctor of Science) from Loughborough University in 1986.
His grave is in the churchyard of Saint Peter & Saint Paul Church, Shalden.
Council London Zoological Society 197782, 1984-1987.
Married Ursula Joan Starr in 1947.