Oulton, Sir Antony Derek Maxwell (1927–2016), senior civil servant, lawyer, and Fellow of Magdalene College

Educated at St Edward's School, Oxford.
Admitted to King's College, Cambridge.

Called to the bar at Gray's Inn (where he was later a Bencher), and was in private practice as a barrister in Nairobi until 1960, when he joined the Lord Chancellor's Department.

He served as Private Secretary to three successive Lord Chancellors and also served as Secretary to the Beeching Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions.

1982-89 - Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1984 - knighted
1985 - appointed Queen's Counsel
1989 - appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
He was awarded a University of Cambridge PhD

After retiring from the civil service he entered academia, becoming a Research Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1990. He subsequently became a Life Fellow and, until his retirement in June 2007, supervised undergraduate students in constitutional law.

Sir Derek received a standing ovation from the College Law Society following his retirement at the Annual Lawyers' Dinner in 2007. A bench sits beside the River Cam in the grounds of the College in his honour.

In 1955 he married Margaret Oxley and they had four children.

He died on 1 August 2016.

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