After earning a B.A. in 1905 and an M.A. in 1909, Keynes became a civil servant, taking a job with the India Office in Whitehall.
In December his resignation was announced, with the 64-year-old Sir Peter Middleton, a former civil servant, taking over as chief executive.Sir Peter set about finding another outside chief executive.
An alternative scenario could see a senior civil servant take over responsibility for public finances.
A British civil servant took charge of the police force, and British officers are training the ill-disciplined Sierra Leonean army.
Sam Wong, a 40-year-old civil servant, took his 5-year-old son, Keith, to Ocean Park because he thought it would be educational.
The advisory committee on business appointments (Acoba) has confirmed that he did not seek its permission, as would normally happen when a senior civil servant takes a prominent role within two years of leaving Whitehall.
The Mayor, who has made a point of using public transportation in his capacity as a public servant, took a ride in one of the latest models as a paternal favor, and Georgina scored a new car.
She has medical students who cannot get their diplomas, a housewife who is not allowed to take driving lessons, a woman whose husband, a civil servant, takes another woman, uncovered, to official ceremonies as his wife.
The fictional Michel, a bored, misanthropic civil servant, takes off with his inherited windfall on a tour to Thailand, where he gloomily interacts with his fellow tourists and visits massage parlours for relief.
EARLY in "Mies Julie," a South African adaptation of Strindberg's play, a domestic servant takes a garden fork to the kitchen floor of her boss's house in a feverish attempt to free her ancestors' spirits, trapped beneath flagstones that were placed over a burial ground.
As News International prepares to pay compensation to victims of the illegal practice, the Guardian understands that Britain's most senior civil servant took steps to prevent an inquiry on the grounds that it would be too sensitive before last year's general election.
