Brian Cubbon
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Sir Brian Cubbon, (Born April 9, 1928) is a former senior British civil servant and is currently a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission[1].
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
Sir Brian was injured in the murder by the IRA of the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was hit by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Sir Brian's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured.
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