Principal Private Secretary
Born in 1893, Bertram Lamb Pearson was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, at Bedford School and at The Queen's College, Oxford. He was Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education between 1924 and 1928, Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Education between 1937 and 1946, and Under Secretary at the Ministry of Education between 1946 and 1955.