A fact from George Coldstream appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 July 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The article said that Coldstream retired well before the madatory retirement age. The mandatory retirement age for civil servants is 6o, which is his age on retirement.
I have removed this reference pending any counter-evidence.
The mandatory retirement age is sixty. It was much higher in the 70s before the large policy shift which led to earlier retirements, contracts rather than life appointments, etc. See Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, for example, who was 74 when he retired. The reference itself is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which is a highly reliable source. Unless you can present counter-evidence using similarly reliable sources which state that the retirement age at that time was lower, it stays. Ironholds (talk) 14:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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