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Geoffrey Crawford

CVO
Assistant Private Secretary to the Sovereign
In office
1997–2000
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded byThe Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Fellowes
Succeeded byThe Rt. Hon. Sir Christopher Geidt
Personal details
Born29 September 1950
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
SpouseCatherine Banks
Alma materThe Kings School, Parramatta and The University of Sydney

Geoffrey Douglas Crawford, CVO, (born 29 September 1950, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was the Deputy Press Secretary and subsequently Press Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1988 to 2000. In 2000 Crawford was appointed Assistant Private Secratary to the Queen

Early life

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A native of Gloucestershire, Robin Berry Janvrin is the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Richard Benest Janvrin and Nancy Edyth Fielding. He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College, Oxford from which he received a first class bachelor's degree in 1969, and of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1999. In 1962, he was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun in upstate New York.

Career

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Janvrin entered the Royal Navy in 1964, was commissioned as an acting sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1966,[1] promoted lieutenant on 4 March 1971,[2] and served until 2 July 1975.[3] He then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was a Second Secretary in 1975, and was appointed First Secretary at the mission to NATO in 1976. He was officially appointed an Officer of the Diplomatic Service on 7 February 1979.[4] Janvrin was First Secretary in New Delhi from 1981 to 1984, during which time he was made a Member of the 4th Class of the Royal Victorian Order[5] for services during the state visit by The Queen to India.

Janvrin was then Counsellor and Deputy Head of Department for the Personnel Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1985 to 1987.

On 1 June 1987 he was recruited as Press Secretary to The Queen,[6] though it was initially thought that he would be appointed Assistant Press Secretary. On 19 October 1990 he became Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen,[7] and in 1996 the Deputy Private Secretary. He was promoted to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1994 New Year Honours,[8] and Knight Commander (KCVO) in the 1998 New Year Honours,[9] and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1997 New Year Honours.[10] In February 1999 he succeeded Sir Robert Fellowes (later Lord Fellowes) as Private Secretary to the Queen. He was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2003 New Year Honours.[11]

In December 2006, it was announced that he would retire in September 2007, to be replaced by Christopher Geidt.[12] He was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours.[13] On 24 July 2007, it was announced that Janvrin would be made a life peer, as one of the ten public servants whom the Prime Minister may nominate for a peerage, upon their retirement, per Parliament.[14][15] His title was gazetted as Baron Janvrin, of Chalford Hill in the County of Gloucestershire on 10 October 2007.[16] On the day of his retirement, 8 September 2007, Janvrin was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, (GCVO) by The Queen.[17] In October, Her Majesty appointed Lord Janvrin to be a Permanent Lord-in-Waiting in the Royal Household.[18]

In the 2008 New Year's Honours List of New Zealand, Lord Janvrin was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for "services to New Zealand as Private Secretary to The Queen".[19]

On 7 January 2008 he took up his appointment of Deputy Chairman, HSBC Private Bank (UK). Janvrin is also Chairman of The Leadership Council, a research and thought leadership body in the UK.[20]

Marriage

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He married Isabelle de Boissonneaux de Chevigny, daughter of Yann de Boissonneaux de Chevigny, in 1977.

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Janvrin was portrayed by Roger Allam in Stephen Frears' The Queen (2006) starring Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren. The film, which deals with the immediate aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, inaccurately portrays Janvrin, then Deputy Private Secretary to the Sovereign, as Private Secretary (or at least heavily implies as much, though it is never explicitly said), an office to which he would only be appointed two years after the events depicted in the film. Apparently this was due to the fact that Robert Fellowes, then the Private Secretary, was an in-law of the deceased Diana and this would present complications for the film script.[citation needed]

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ "No. 44661". The London Gazette. 27 August 1968.
  2. ^ "No. 45454". The London Gazette. 24 August 1971.
  3. ^ "No. 46638". The London Gazette. 21 July 1975.
  4. ^ "No. 47811". The London Gazette. 5 April 1979.
  5. ^ "No. 49569". The London Gazette. 13 December 1983. Membership of the 4th Class was subsequently renamed so members of this grade became Lieutenants of the order, and were entitled to the postnominals LVO.
  6. ^ "No. 50942". The London Gazette. 9 June 1987.
  7. ^ "No. 52306". The London Gazette. 19 October 1990.
  8. ^ "No. 53527". The London Gazette. 30 December 1993.
  9. ^ "No. 54993". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 30 December 1997.
  10. ^ "No. 54625". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 30 December 1996.
  11. ^ "No. 56797". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 31 December 2002.
  12. ^ "Announcement of the retirement of Sir Robin Janvrin" (Press release). Buckingham Palace. 19 December 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2007.
  13. ^ "No. 58358". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 16 June 2007.
  14. ^ "Announcement of Janvrin's life peerage nomination for service as Private Secretary to the Queen". 'Number 10' website.
  15. ^ "No. 58411". The London Gazette. 3 August 2007.
  16. ^ "No. 58495". The London Gazette. 26 October 2007.
  17. ^ "No. 58465". The London Gazette. 28 September 2007.
  18. ^ The Times, 9 September 2007
  19. ^ DPMC - New Zealand Honours
  20. ^ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/the-leadership-council.asp
  21. ^ Excerpt from The Monarchist (Canada)

Offices held

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Court offices
Preceded by Private Secretary to the Sovereign
1999–2007 		Succeeded by


Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Category:Crossbench life peers Category:Honorary Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Category:People educated at Marlborough College Category:Permanent Lords-in-Waiting Category:People from Cheltenham Category:Royal Navy officers Category:Companions of the Queen's Service Order Category:Private Secretaries to the Sovereign Category:Deputy Private Secretaries to the Sovereign Category:Assistant Private Secretaries to the Sovereign Category:Camp Rising Sun alumni

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