John Oliver Frank Kingman (born 24 April 1969) is a civil servant, and is the son of Sir John Frank Charles Kingman.
He was Second Permanent Secretary and managing director, public services and growth directorate at HM Treasury. On 3 November, 2008 he was appointed as chief executive of UK Financial Investments Limited.
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“Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleonbut we went right on. Look at Harpo Marxthe world went around, it didnt stop for a second. Its sad but true. John Kennedy, right?”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“And he had an ethical bypass at birth.”
—Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Marvin (John C. McGinley)
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
—French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)