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Alastair Hanton is a British civil servant who served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment from 1983 to 1989. He was born on 10 October 1926 in London, England. Hanton was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read economics. He joined the Civil Service in 1949, and held a number of posts in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry. In 1983, Hanton was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment, a post he held until 1989. He was also a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1983 to 1989. Hanton is currently 95 years old. He is married and has two children. His height is not known.

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Occupation Civil servant, banker, social entrepreneur, transport campaigner
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 10 October 1926
Birthday 10 October
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Date of death May 26, 2021
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Who Is Alastair Hanton's Wife?

His wife is Margaret Lumsden
Family
Parents Peter Kydd Hanton (father)Maud Evans (mother)
Wife Margaret Lumsden
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Children Fiona, Angus and Bruce

Alastair Hanton Net Worth

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Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Civil servant

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1986

Hanton was awarded an OBE in the 1986 New Year Honours on his retirement as deputy managing director of National Girobank.

1985

In 1985, Hanton initiated the LINK ATM network that allowed customers to withdraw money from ATMs of banks other than their own.

1982

In 1982 Hanton was promoted from Operations Director to Deputy Managing Director.

1968

Hanton left Rio Tinto after four years to help found the new National Giro in 1968, retiring from the organisation 18 years later in 1987.

1964

Joining Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation in 1964 he developed the use of the discounted cash flow technique, and contributed to the book The Finance and Analysis of Capital Projects.

Direct debit was invented by Alastair Hanton while he was working at Unilever as a way of collecting payments more efficiently from Wall's ice cream sellers. Originally named automatic debit transfer it commenced operation, as a paper-based system, in 1964, becoming widely available from 1968.

1957

In 1957 Hanton took a job at the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC, now 3i) which provided financial support for small firms. A year later, in 1958, Hanton joined the Economics and Statistics division of Unilever.

1956

Hanton married Margaret Lumsden, a market researcher and Cambridge graduate in 1956. They had two sons, Angus and Bruce, and a daughter Fiona.

1948

After graduating, a 22-year-old Hanton joined the newly-founded government overseas aid organisation, the Colonial Development Corporation in 1948, and after two years at head office in London was posted to Malawi to plan public works.

1926

Alistair Kydd Hanton OBE (1926 – 2021) was a British banker, transport campaigner and social entrepreneur who invented the direct debit system in 1964.

Hanton was born in north London on 10 October 1926.

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