Joseph Brennan (civil servant)
- Joseph Brennan (civil servant)
Joseph Brennan (1887–1963) was a senior Irish civil servant born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland on 18th November, 1887.
In 1909 he entered Christ Church, Cambridge where he studied mathematics and then switched to classics. In successive years he obtained a first in Latin and Greek. In 1911 he entered the Civil Service and was assigned to the Board of Customs and Excise and a year later transferred to the finance division of the Chief Secretary's office in Dublin Castle.
In April, 1922 he became the Irish Free State's first Comptroller and Auditor - General and in April of the following year he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Finance, a post he held until his retirement from the Civil Service in 1927. Later that year he was appointed Chairman of the Currency Commission.
When the Currency Commission was dissolved in 1942 he became the first Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. From 1928 until his retirement in 1953 his signature appeared on all Irish Banknotes.
During the Truce he was introduced to Michael Collins and later became a financial advisor to the team negotiating the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
In 1938 Joseph Brennan was conferred with an Honorary LLD by the National University of Ireland. He died in 1976.
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