Sir Claude James Hayes KCMG (23 March 1912 – 20 November 1996) was a British civil servant who was Chairman of Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations from 1968 to 1974.[1]

He was educated at Ardingly College, graduated with a first class degree from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2] He held a fellowship at the Sorbonne and was briefly a tutor at New College, Oxford.

He was made KCMG in 1974, having been made CMG in 1969.

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  1. ^ ‘HAYES, Sir Claude (James)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
  2. ^ "Obituary: Sir Claude Hayes". The Independent. Retrieved 12 March 2016.