Brian Cubbon

Brian Cubbon

Sir Brian Cubbon (born April 9 1928) is a former senior civil servant and is currently a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission. [ [http://www.pcc.org.uk/about/whoswho/panel.html pcc.org.uk] ]

Cubbon was Permanent Under Secretary of State (the senior civil servant in charge of a Government department) of the Northern Ireland Office from 1976 to 1979 and Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1979 to 1988.

He was a Press Complaints Commission Commissioner from 1995 to 2002

Cubbon was injured in an IRA bomb explosion in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, was killed in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was blown up by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Cubbon's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke, was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured.

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