This article is about the Australian public servant. For the American exploitation film producer, see Dick Randall (producer).
Sir Dick Randall
Office 1Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
Term start 128 October 1966
Term end 131 October 1971
Birth nameRichard John Randall
Birth date13 October 1906
Birth placeBirkdale, Australia
Death date15 November 1982 (aged 76)
Death placeCanberra, Australia
OccupationPublic servant
SpouseNora Barry Clyne (m. 1945)

Sir Richard John Randall (13 October 1906 – 15 November 1982) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury between October 1966 and October 1971.

Life and career

Dick Randall was born in Birkdale, Queensland on 13 October 1906.[1] He attended Wynnum State High School, then qualified as a wool classer and worked in rural Queensland.[2] He moved to Sydney and had a job with the Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd. Having left high school after two years, he matriculated at age 26, studied accounting and then enrolled at the University of Sydney where he completed an economics degree. During this time he also contributed articles to Smith's Weekly and became its finance editor.[3]

Randall joined the Commonwealth public service in 1940, taking up a post at the Department of the Treasury.[3] The following year, on 27 May,[4] he enlisted to the Australian Imperial Force, spending most of the war in Western Australia and demobilising in November 1945.[3]

After the war, Randall rejoined Treasury,[2] and was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1966.[5] He retired from his Secretary role in October 1971.[6]

Randall died in Canberra on 15 November 1982, aged 76.[2]

Awards

Randall was made a Knight Bachelor in 1964.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Sir Richard Randall". The Canberra Times. 17 November 1982. p. 8.
  2. ^ "Randall, Sir Richard John (Dick) (1906–1982)", Obituaries Australia, Australian National University, archived 29 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cornish, Selwyn, "Randall, Sir Richard John (Dick) (1906–1982)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, archived 19 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Service record: RANDALL, RICHARD JOHN", Commonwealth of Australia, 2002, archived 28 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Randall, Sir Richard John (Dick) (1906–1982)", Obituaries Australia, Australian National University, archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ McMahon, William (10 September 1971). "Senior Public Service Appointments". Archived 28 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ "Search Australian Honours: RANDALL, Richard John", Australian Government, archived 28 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine