Brian Cubbon

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Sir Brian Cubbon (b. April 9, 1928) is a former senior civil servant and is currently a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission. ^[1]

Cubbon was Permanent Under Secretary of State (the senior civil servant in charge of a Government department) of the Northern Ireland Office from 1976 to 1979 and Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1979 to 1988.

He was a Press Complaints Commission Commissioner from 1995 to 2002

Brian Cubbon was injured an IRA bomb explosion in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, died in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was hit by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Sir Brian's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured.