Christopher Bullock (civil servant)

Sir Christopher Llewellyn Bullock, KCB, CBE (10 November 1891 – 16 May 1972) was a prominent member of the Bullock family. He was appointed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald as Permanent Under-Secretary at the British Air Ministry in 1930; at the age of 38, he remains one of the youngest civil servants to have headed a British government department. His work as Permanent Under-Secretary has been credited as responsible for Britain's survival in the Second World War.

After a report by a Board of Inquiry found he had abused his position as head of the ministry to seek a place on the board of Imperial Airways at a time when his ministry was negotiating with the company to establish an air mail service, he was dismissed by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in 1938, making him the only Permanent Under-Secretary ever known to have been dismissed from the civil service.

After the Second World War, opinion within the government began to change and Baldwin stated that "if I had had the full evidence before me which has now been made available, I should not have taken the decision I reluctantly did". After his death in 1972, public acknowledgement was given to the regret of his dismissal.

News reports in 2012 revealed that his cousin-in-law was Catherine, Princess of Wales.