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Lenox Hewitt (Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt) was born on 7 May, 1917 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian public servant (1917–2020). Discover Lenox Hewitt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?

Popular As Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt
Occupation Public servant
Age 102 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 7 May, 1917
Birthday 7 May
Birthplace St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 28 February, 2020
Died Place Edgecliff, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1917

Sir Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt (7 May 1917 – 28 February 2020) was an Australian public servant.

Hewitt was born in St Kilda, Victoria, on 7 May 1917.

He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Economics, which he completed on a part-time basis while employed by BHP on a traineeship.

1939

His career in the Commonwealth Public Service spanned from 1939 to 1980, and included periods as a senior adviser and departmental secretary.

From 1939 to 1946, he was Assistant Secretary to Sir Douglas Copland, who was Commonwealth Prices Commissioner and Special Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister.

1946

He joined the Department of Postwar Reconstruction 1946–49 as an economist.

1950

In 1950 he was posted to London as Official Secretary and acting Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, remaining there till 1953.

On return to Australia he joined the Department of the Treasury, where a position of Assistant Secretary was specially created for him.

1955

He was First Assistant Secretary 1955-62, and Deputy Secretary 1962-66.

1967

In 1967 he was appointed to chair the Australian Universities Commission.

1968

His most prominent position was as secretary of the Prime Minister's Department during the Gorton government (1968–1971).

He worked closely with Prime Minister John Gorton, although his initial appointment in place of John Bunting was seen as unconventional.

In January 1968, John Gorton became Prime Minister in unusual circumstances after the drowning of Harold Holt in December 1967.

Gorton did not want to continue receiving advice from the long-serving departmental secretary Sir John Bunting, and he created a new Department of the Cabinet Office for him, appointing Hewitt as Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department in March.

This appointment was not well received in the senior public service echelons in Canberra.

On the plus side, Hewitt had a reputation for having a formidable mind, a grasp of detail, a capacity to make quick decisions and an impatience with red tape.

On the other hand, he had always stirred strong responses in those he dealt with, and was often considered brusque and impatient.

But the major point in his disfavour was that he was never a part of the group of senior figures who lunched at the Commonwealth Club; they disliked him for setting himself apart from them.

Hewitt's appointment was also in the same anti-traditionalist mould as that of the appointment of Ainsley Gotto as Gorton's senior personal adviser.

She had a number of strikes against her: she was aged only 22, she had not had the extensive experience expected of a person in such a position, and she was a woman.

1971

Hewitt was knighted in the 1971 New Year's Honours for his services as head of the Prime Minister's Department.

Gorton left the prime ministership voluntarily in March 1971 after he barely survived a party room ballot instigated by his rival William McMahon; Gorton considered this close result to be insufficient demonstration of support for him and he called a new ballot, in which he was not a candidate.

McMahon succeeded Gorton as Prime Minister; one of his first acts was to restore Sir John Bunting to his old job by merging the Department of the Cabinet Office with the Prime Minister's Department, under a new name, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Hewitt was appointed Secretary of the newly created Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts.

His minister was Peter Howson, who was not keen on the job (he was reported as describing it as "trees, boongs and poofters").

1972

Hewitt was also influential as secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy during the Whitlam government (1972–1975), working under minister Rex Connor.

McMahon's Liberal government survived less than two years, being soundly defeated by Gough Whitlam's Labor Party in December 1972.

The new Minister for Minerals and Energy, Rex Connor, had established a good relationship with Sir Lenox Hewitt in the period leading up to the election, and he chose him to be the first Secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy.

1974

In 1974, Whitlam considered appointing Hewitt as Secretary to the Treasury, replacing Sir Frederick Wheeler, but in the end he opted to maintain the status quo.

In 1974 and 1975 Hewitt was involved in dealings with Tirath Khemlani and he played a role in the Loans Affair.

1975

He later served as chairman of Qantas (1975–1980).

In July 1975 he was one of a number of senior public servants summoned to give evidence to the Senate over the Loans Affair; in the event, the government claimed crown immunity from such questioning.

In 1975 consideration was given to the creation of a new Department of Economic Planning, which would assume many of the functions of Treasury and reduce its influence.

Hewitt was again in Whitlam's mind to head this Department, with Wheeler to be appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank.

The events of 1975 culminating in the Labor government’s dismissal did not permit this plan to come to fruition.

Later in 1975 Whitlam appointed Hewitt Chairman of Qantas for a five-year term.

1977

As Graham Freudenberg wrote in A Certain Grandeur (1977):

1980

He ended his term in 1980 amid public controversy over not being given a further five-year term by the incumbent Liberal government of Malcolm Fraser.

He was offered only a one-year extension, but chose not to accept it.

After Qantas, he chaired the Snowy Mountains Council and was a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission.