Frederick Kearns

Sir Frederick Matthias Kearns, KCB, MC (1921 – 7 August 1983) was an English civil servant. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he served in the Second World War before entering the civil service. He was secretary to the commission investigating the Crichel Down affair in 1956 and was subsequently the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's regional controller for Newcastle. In 1960, he returned to MAFF and was its Second Permanent Secretary from 1973 to 1978, during which time he was a key member of the UK's delegation during negotiations with the European Community over the UK's adoption of the Common Agriculture Policy.[1]