Jeremy Heywood

The Right Honourable The Lord Heywood of Whitehall GCB CVO
Heywood in 2015
Cabinet Secretary
In office 1 January 2012 – 24 October 2018
Prime Minister	David Cameron Theresa May
Preceded by	Sir Gus O'Donnell
Succeeded by	Sir Mark Sedwill
Head of the Home Civil Service
In office September 2014 – 24 October 2018
Prime Minister	David Cameron Theresa May
Preceded by	Bob Kerslake
Succeeded by	Mark Sedwill
Downing Street Permanent Secretary
In office 11 May 2010 – 1 January 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Simon Case (2020)
Downing Street Chief of Staff
In office 10 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Stephen Carter
Succeeded by	Edward Llewellyn
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 23 January 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Tom Scholar
Succeeded by	James Bowler
In office 4 June 1999 – 10 July 2003
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Sir John Holmes
Succeeded by	Ivan Rogers
Personal details
Born	Jeremy John Heywood (1961-12-31)31 December 1961 Glossop, Derbyshire, England
Died	4 November 2018(2018-11-04) (aged 56) London, England
Spouse	Suzanne Cook ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	3
Alma mater	Hertford College, Oxford (BA) London School of Economics (MSc)

Jeremy John Heywood, Baron Heywood of Whitehall, GCB, CVO (31 December 1961 – 4 November 2018) was a British civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May from 2012 to 2018 and Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 to 2018. He served as the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1999 to 2003 and 2008 to 2010. He also served as Downing Street Chief of Staff and the first Downing Street Permanent Secretary.^[1][2] After he was diagnosed with lung cancer,^[3] he took a leave of absence from June 2018, and retired on health grounds on 24 October 2018, receiving a life peerage; he died a fortnight later on 4 November 2018.