Английская Википедия:Daniel McVey
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Sir Daniel McVey Шаблон:Post-nominals (24 November 1892Шаблон:Spaced endash24 December 1972) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1940 until December 1946.
Life and career
Daniel McVey was born in Carronshore, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 24 November 1892, to Daniel and Jeanie McVey.[1] He and his younger brothers Robert (Bob), Harry (Henry), George, Bill and sister Nessie moved to Australia in 1910 after their mother Jeanie died in childbirth and their father remarried.[1]
McVey joined the Commonwealth Public Service in the Postmaster-General's Department as a clerk in 1914.[2][3] He left the department to serve with the First Australian Imperial Force between 1915 and 1919 in the 45th Battery, attaining the position Lieutenant.[3]
He was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in January 1940.[4] From February 1944, McVey had also held the post of Director-General of Civil Aviation, head of the Department of Civil Aviation, a position he was officially "on loan" to.[5][6]
McVey retired from the public service in June 1946.[1] After leaving the service, he joined private industry, working as chairman and managing director of Standard Telephones & Cables Pty Ltd between 1946 and 1949, and then going on to become managing director of Metal Manufactures Ltd and Austral Bronze Co. Pty Ltd from 1949 until 1962.[1]
McVey died on 24 December 1972 in East Melbourne and was cremated.[1]
Awards
In 1946, McVey was awarded the University of Melbourne Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement.[7]
McVey was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1950.[1]
References
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