Michael Heseltine

Michael Heseltine (; 1886–1952) was a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom and later Registrar of the General Medical Council between 1933 and 1951. Early life Born in 1886 in Norfolk, his father was Rev. Ernest Heseltine, and his uncle was John Postle Heseltine. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he studied Mods and Greats (Latin and Greek). He wrote a translation of Petronius' Satyricon in 1913, though it was criticised by Stephen Gaselee, the Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge for despite having a "virile and attractive style", having a number of mistranslations from Latin. Career Civil servant Heseltine was appointed as an administrative civil servant in the Civil Service in 1909 and initially served in the Office of Works and the Home Office.