OBITUARY

SIR ANTHONY RAWLINSON Civil Service and mountaineering

Sir Anthony Rawlinson, KCB, a former Joint Perma - nent Secretary at the Depart - ment of Trade, was killed in a fall from Snowdon on Febru - ary 22. He was 59. Born on March 5, 1926, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and served in the Grenadier Guards from 1944 to 1947. His civil service career was concentrated mainly in the Treasury, from which he went to Washington in 1972-75 as Britain's executive director of the International Monetary Fund at the World Bank, a job which is combined with that of economic minister in the British Embassy in Washing - ton . After a brief spell in the Department of Industry, he returned to the Treasury as one of three second perma - nent secretaries. There he had responsibility for public ex - penditure during a period of rapid change in the manage - ment of public programmes, and oversaw the switch to cash planning and budgeting, begun under the Callaghan government but accelerated under the first of Mrs Thatcher's administrations.

In 1983, he moved to become permanent secretary at the Department of Trade, which was fused with the Department of Industry under Mr Cecil Parkinson after the 1983 election, though still retaining two permanent sec - retaries . At Trade, Rawlinson had responsibility for issues of competition policy, and was much involved in the negotia - tions that culminated in the