Malcolm Shepherd | |
Office1: | Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department |
Term Start1: | 1 January 1912 |
Term End1: | 27 January 1921 |
Successor1: | Percy Deane |
Office2: | Secretary of the Department of Defence |
Term Start2: | 1927 |
Term End2: | 1937 |
Predecessor2: | Thomas Trumble |
Successor2: | Sir Frederick Shedden |
Birth Date: | 27 October 1873 |
Birth Place: | Cambewarra, New South Wales |
Death Place: | East Melbourne, Victoria |
Occupation: | Public servant |
Nationality: | Australian |
Spouse: | Edith Nina Adelaide Dimelow (m. 1899; d. 1915) Linda Hazel Hopetoun Gill (m. 1917) |
Malcolm Lindsay Shepherd (27 October 1873 – 25 June 1960) was a senior Australian public servant. From 1904 to 1911 he served as the private secretary to four Australian prime ministers, (Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson, George Reid and Andrew Fisher), prior to being appointed as the inaugural Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department (1911–1921). He subsequently served as official secretary of the Commonwealth of Australia in London (1921–1927) and Secretary of the Department of Defence (1927–1937).[1]