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Sir Gilbert Nicolson Flemming
(1897-1981), Civil servantSitter in 1 portrait
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David Pollock
23 April 2021, 12:42
Gilbert Flemming was permanent secretary at the Ministry of Education (see https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F38302) . He was married to Virginia, one of three daughters of Stanton Coit, who was a leading light in the Union of Ethical Societies (later Ethical Union and British Humanist Association, now Humanists UK) and turned the West London Ethical Society into the Ethical Church (in Bayswater) in 1909 (see https://heritage.humanists.uk/stanton-coit/). Virginia herself became a key figure in the Ethical Union and was (for example) an EU witness examined by the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce in November 1951 (see https://heritage.humanists.uk/may-seaton-tiedeman/). Gilbert Flemming himself provided advice to the EU on education matters.