Raymond Nottage CMG

Published date01 July 2010
Date01 July 2010
DOI10.1177/0952076710371727
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Raymond Nottage, who died on 19 February 2010 at the age of 93, will always be
associated with the Royal Institute of Public Administration, whose activities he
directed for close on thirty years. In the words of the late Lord Redcliffe-Maud,
he was its post-war ‘founding father’.
Although the Institute of Public Administration was founded in 1922, it was
only in 1947 that it felt able to appoint its first full-time Director. Raymond was
its second, in 1949. Raymond spent most of his pre-institute career at Post Office
Headquarters. The Post Office released him on ‘approved employment’ for two
years – a period which in the event was somewhat extended. He retired from the
Institute in 1978.
Raymond’s first task was to develop a corporate membership scheme. His
success in masterminding this operation was to link over 500 public authorities
with the Institute and provide it with a stable financial footing on which to mount
a growing range of activities. With his colleague John Sargent, he launched the
Institute’s training programme for UK public servants, a major enterprise that
included the first seminars run in this country for clerks and town clerks and
marked the beginning of a long and fruitful association between the Institute and
many of these officers.
Over the years, Raymond took a special interest in the development and man-
agement of the Institute’s research programme, which resulted in the publication
of seventeen major studies on many aspects of public administration, as well as
several monographs on topical themes. One of the early studies concerned oper-
ational research in local government, a pioneering attempt to prove the value of
this scientific approach to local services. The establishment within the Institute of
the Local Government Operational Research Unit in 1965 owed much to his
initiative. In time it was to become one of the largest OR units in the country
with, at its peak, over 60 staff.
Raymond was the author of two of the Institute’s publications: Sources of
Local Revenue with Stanley Hildersley and Financing Public Sector Pensions.
DOI: 10.1177/0952076710371727 341

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