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Introduction
The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP) creates a valuable new body of research material for the study of British diplomatic history. It was established in 1995 by Malcolm McBain, a retired Diplomatic Service officer, with the approval and co-operation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).A searchable indexed catalogue to transcripts of the BDOHP interviews is available on the Janus webserver (which contains catalogues of archives and manuscripts held in Cambridge), while the transcripts themselves are available below.
This material, which is being preserved and conserved at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, offers unparalleled insights into how British diplomats function and what really happened at crucial moments in their careers. It affords a unique account of important, and often unrecorded, events in international relations. It is increasingly recognised as a source of raw material by scholars, writers, journalists and researchers.
The BDOHP interviews former diplomats or other officials who have played a significant role in events bearing on international relations. The tendency towards greater openness in government has strengthened in recent years. Interviewees are encouraged by their interviewers to be candid and not to allow their instinctive respect for confidentiality to inhibit a frank description of what it is they have contributed to British diplomacy. They are however assured that what they say will not be published or put into the public domain without their permission or prior FCO clearance.
To strengthen the confidence of interviewees in the BDOHP, the interviewers are also retired diplomats or their wives. These interviewers understand the desirability of obtaining a first hand account covering the ground fairly and illuminating the atmosphere of a broad spectrum of posts around the world during the conduct of international relations. Transcripts of the interviews provide valuable details and insights into the daily workings of diplomacy and of Whitehall which may not otherwise be available to outside observers and commentators. Many such details, taken for granted in contemporary documents, are often omitted from the official records when these are eventually released into the public domain.
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ACLAND, Sir Antony Arthur, KG, GCMG, GCVO (b.1930)
Diplomat. Joined Diplomatic Service, 1953; Middle Eastern Centre for Arab Studies, 1954; Dubai, 1955; Kuwait, 1956;
Foreign Office, 1958-62; Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State, 1959-62; UK Mission to UN, 1962-66;
Head of Chancery, UK Mission, Geneva, 1966-68; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968, Head of Arabian Department,
1970-72; Principal Private Secretary to Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, 1972-75; Ambassador to Luxembourg,
1975-77, to Spain, 1977-79; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1980-82, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FCO,
and Head of Diplomatic Service, 1982-86; Ambassador to Washington, 1986-91.
Interviewed 2001.
DOHP 57 1 file
ALEXANDER, Sir Michael, GCMG (1936-2002)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign (later Diplomatic) Service, 1962; Moscow, 1963-65; Office of Political Adviser,
Singapore, 1965-68; FCO, 1968-72; Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State (Sir Alec Douglas-Home and
James Callaghan) 1972-74; Counsellor (Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe) and later
Head of Chancery, UK Mission, Geneva, 1974-77; Deputy Head, 1977-78, Head, 1978-79, Personnel Operations Department,
FCO; Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher), 1979-81; Ambassador, Vienna,
1982-86; concurrently Head of UK Delegation to the Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Reduction of Forces and
Armaments in Central Europe, 1985-86; Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative on North Atlantic Council,
Brussels, 1986-92 (Dean of Council, 1991-92).
Interviewed 1998.
DOHP 34 1 file
ALLINSON, Sir Walter Leonard, KCVO, CMG (b.1926)
Diplomat. Assistant Principal, Ministry of Fuel and Power (Petroleum Division), 194748; Assistant Principal,
later Principal, Ministry of Education, 194858 (Assistant Private Secretary to Minister, 195354); transferred
to Commonwealth Relations Office, 1958; First Secretary in Lahore and Karachi, 196062, Madras and New Delhi,
196366; Counsellor and Head of Political Affairs Department, March 1968; Deputy Head, later Head, of Permanent
Under Secretarys Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 196870; Counsellor and Head of Chancery,
subsequently Deputy High Commissioner, Nairobi, 197073; Royal College of Defence Studies, 1974; Diplomatic Service
Inspectorate, 1975; Deputy High Commissioner and Minister, New Delhi, 197577; High Commissioner, Lusaka, 197880;
Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Africa), 198082; High Commissioner in Kenya and Ambassador to UN Environment
Programme, 198286.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 6 1 file
AMY, Dennis Oldrieve, CMG, OBE (b.1932)
Diplomat. Entered HM Foreign, later HM Diplomatic Service, 1949; FO, 1949-51 and 1953-58; Athens, 1958-61;
Second Secretary and Vice Consul, Moscow, 1961-63; FO, 1963-65; DSAO, 1965; Second Secretary and Passport Officer,
Canberra, 1966-70; First Secretary, Ibadan, 1971-74; seconded to Department of Trade, 1974-75; FCO, 1976-78;
First Secretary (Commercial), Santiago, 1978-83 (Chargé d'Affaires, 1979); FCO, 1983-86 (Counsellor,
1985-86); Consul General, Bordeaux, 1986-89; Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar, 1990-92, and
Ambassador (non-resident) to Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, 1991-92.
Interviewed 1998
DOHP 45 1 file
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BACHE, Andrew Philip Foley, CMG (b.1939)
Diplomat. Joined Commonwealth Relations Office, 1963; 3rd Secretary, Nicosia, 1964-66; Treasury Centre for
Administrative Studies, 1966; 2nd Secretary, Sofia, 1966-68; FCO, 1968-71; 1st Secretary, Lagos, 1971-74;
FCO, 1974-78; 1st Secretary (Commercial), Vienna, 1978-81; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Tokyo, 1981-85;
Counsellor, Ankara, 1985-87; Head of Personnel Services Department, FCO, 1988-90; on secondment as Diplomatic
Service Chairman to CSSB, 1990-91; Ambassador to Romania, 1992-96; Ambassador to Copenhagen, 1996-99.
Interviewed 2000.
DOHP 41 1 file
BAILEY, Ronald William, CMG (b.1917)
Diplomat. Vice-Consul, Beirut, 1939, Alexandria, 1941; First Secretary, Cairo, 1945, Beirut, 1949, Washington, 1952;
Counsellor, Khartoum, 1957; Chargé d'Affaires, Taiz, 1960-62; Consul-General, Gothenburg, 1963; Minister, Baghdad,
1965; Ambassador, La Paz, 1967, Rabat, 1971-5.
Interviewed 1996.
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BARDER, Sir Brian Leon, KCMG (b.1934)
Diplomat. West African Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968; First Secretary, Moscow, 1971;
Counsellor, Canberra, 1973; Head of Southern African Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1978;
Ambassador, Addis Ababa, 1982; Ambassador, Warsaw, 1986; High Commissioner, Lagos and Ambassador to Benin, 1988;
High Commissioner, Canberra, 1991.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 22 1 file and 3 cds
DOHP 22 also includes recordings of the BBC Radio 4 programme "The Reunion" (2009),
and of the longer discussion from which the programme was taken, where Sir Brian Barder, International
Red Cross nurse Claire Bertschinger, the BBC reporter Michael Buerk, Dawit Wolde Giorgis, former head of the
Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, and Hugh Goyder, former head of Oxfam's Ethiopia programme
were reunited to discuss their memories of the Ethiopian famine relief effort.
BEETHAM, Roger Campbell, CMG (b. 1937)
Diplomat. Beetham entered the Diplomatic Service in 1960, and his career included: Foreign Office, (1960-62);
British Delegation to Disarmament Conference, Geneva [Switzerland], (1962-65); Washington [United States], (1965-68);
News Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (1969-72); Head of Chancery, Helsinki [Finland], (1972-76); FCO,
(1976); seconded to European Commission, Brussels [Belgium], as Spokesman of the President, Roy Jenkins, (1977-80);
Counsellor (Economic and Commercial), New Delhi [India], (1981-85); Head of Maritime, Aviation and Environment
Department, FCO, (1985-90); Ambassador to Senegal and (non-resident) to Cape Verde, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Mali,
(1990-93); British Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe (with personal rank of Ambassador), 1993-1997.
Interviewed 2002.
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BEST, Sir Richard Radford, KCVO CBE (b.1933)
Diplomat. Second Secretary, Lusaka, 1969-72; First Secretary (Economics), Stockholm, 1972-76; First Secretary
(Commercial), New Delhi, 1979-82; Deputy High Commissioner, Kaduna, Nigeria, 1984-89; Ambassador, Reykjavik,
1989-92.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 7 1 file
BIRCH, Sir John Allan, KCVO CMG (b.1935)
Diplomat. Served with Middlesex Regiment, 1954-56. Joined Foreign Service, 1959; served: Paris, 1960-63;
Singapore, 1963-64; Bucharest, 1965-68; Geneva, 1968-70; Kabul, 1973-76; Royal College of Defence Studies, 1977;
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Negotiations, Geneva, 1977-80; Counsellor, Budapest, 1980-83; Head of East European
Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1983-86; Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to United
Nations, New York, 1986-89; Ambassador to Hungary, 1989-95.
Interviewed 2004.
DOHP 87 1 file
BOYD, Sir John (Dixon Iklé), KCMG (b.1936)
Diplomat. Joined HM Foreign Service, 1962; Hong Kong, 1962-64; Peking, 1965-67; Foreign Office, 1967-69;
Washington, 1969-73; 1st Secretary, Peking, 1973-75; secondment to HM Treasury, 1976; Counsellor: (Economic),
Bonn, 1977-81; (Economic and Social Affairs), UK Mission to UN, 1981-84; Assistant Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1984; Political Adviser, Hong Kong, 1985-87; Deputy Under-Secretary of State,
FCO, 1987-89; Chief Clerk, FCO, 1989-92; Ambassador to Japan, 1992-96.
Interviewed 1999.
DOHP 60 1 file
BRAITHWAITE, Sir Rodric Quentin, GCMG (b.1932)
Diplomat. Third Secretary, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1957; Second Secretary, Warsaw, Poland, 1959; First Secretary
(Commercial), Moscow, 1963, Rome, 1966; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Brussels, 1975; Head of Planning Staff,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1979; Minister (Commercial) Washington, 1982; Ambassador, Moscow, 1988-92; Foreign
Policy Adviser and Chairman of Joint Intelligence Committee, 1992-3.
Interviewed 1998.
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BROWN, Sir Mervyn, KCMG OBE (b.1923)
Diplomat. Entered HM Foreign Service, 1949; Third Secretary, Buenos Aires, 1950; Second Secretary, UK Mission to UN,
New York, 1953; First Secretary, Foreign Office, 1956; Singapore, 1959; Vientiane, 1960; again in Foreign Office,
1963—67; Ambassador, Madagascar 1967-70; High Commissioner, Tanzania, 1975-8; Deputy Permanent Resident, UK Mission
to United Nations, 1978; High Commissioner, Nigeria, 1979-83.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 18 1 file
BRENTON, Sir Anthony, KCMG (b.1950)
Joined Diplomatic Service, 1975; Cairo, 1978-81; European Communities Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
1981-85; with UK Permanent Representation to EC, 1985-86; Deputy Chef de Cabinet, EC, 1986-89; Counsellor, 1989;
Head: UN Department, FCO, 1989-90; Environment, Science and Energy Department, FCO, 1990-92; Fellow, Centre for
International Affairs, Harvard University, 1992-93; Counsellor, Moscow, 1994-98; Director for Global Issues, FCO,
1998-2001; Minister, Washington, 2001-04; Ambassador to Russia, 2004-08.
Interviewed 2010.
DOHP 127 1 file
BROWNING, Rex Alan, CB (1930-2009)
HM Inspector of Taxes, 1952; Assistant Principal, Colonial Office, 1957; Private Secretary to Parliamentary
Under-Secretary for the Colonies, 1960; Principal, Department of Technical Co-operation, 1961; transferred to
Ministry of Overseas Development (ODM), 1964; seconded to Diplomatic Service as First Secretary (Aid), British
High Commission, Singapore, 1969; Assistant Secretary, 1971; Counsellor, Overseas Developoment, Washington, and
Alternate UK Executive Director, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 197376;
Under-Secretary: ODM, 197678; Department of Trade, 197880; Overseas Development Administration (ODA), 198081;
Deputy Secretary, ODA, 198186.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 9 1 file
BUIST, John Latto Farquharson (Ian), CB (1930-2012)
Diplomat. Assistant Principal, Colonial Office, 1952-54; seconded to Kenya Government, 1954-56; Principal,
Colonial Office, 1956-61; Department of Technical Co-operation, 1961-62; British High Commission, Dar-es-Salaam,
1962-64; Consultant on Administration, East African Common Services Organisation/Community, 1964-69; Secretary,
Commission on East African Co-operation and related bodies, 1966-69; Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Overseas
Development, 1966-76; Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Overseas Development Administration),
1976-90.
Interviewed 2008.
DOHP 118 1 file
BURNS, David Allan (b.1937)
Diplomat. Served HM Forces, 1956-58. Language student and Third Secretary, British Embassy, Belgrade, 1962-65;
Second Secretary, Bangkok, 1966-68; First Secretary, Washington, 1969-72; Head of Chancery, Belgrade, 1973-76;
Assistant Head of Arms Control Department, FCO, 1976-79; Counsellor, Bangkok, 1979-83; Consul General, Boston,
1983-87; Head of North America Department, FCO, 1988-91; Ambassador to Cambodia, 1991-94; Ambassador to Finland,
1995-97.
Interviewed 1999.
DOHP 104 1 file
BURTON, Sir Michael, KCVO, CMG (b.1937)
Diplomat. 2nd Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade, 1955-57. Foreign Office, 1960; Assistant Political Agent, Dubai, Trucial
States, 1962-64; Private Secretary to Minister of State, FO, 1964-67; Second (later First) Secretary (Information),
Khartoum, 1967-69; First Secretary (Information), Paris, 1969-72; Assistant, Science and Technology Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1972-75; First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Amman, 1975-77; Counsellor, Kuwait,
1977-79; Head of Maritime, Aviation and Environment Department, FCO, 1979-81; Head of South Asian Department, FCO,
1981-84; on secondment to BP as Head of Policy Review Unit, 1984-85; Berlin: Minister, 1985-92 (Deputy Commandant,
British Military Government, 1985-90; Head of Embassy Office, 1990-92); Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Middle
East), FCO, 1993; Ambassador to the Czech Republic, 1994-97.
Interviewed 2008.
DOHP 116 1 file
BUTLER, Sir Michael Dacres, GCMG (b.1927)
Diplomat. UK Mission to United Nations, 1952-6; First Secretary, Baghdad, 1956-8; South East Asia Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1958-61; First Secretary, Paris, 1961-5; Counsellor, UK Mission to United Nations,
1968-70, Washington, 1971-2; Head of European Integration, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1972-4, Assistant
Under-Secretary in charge of European Community Affairs, 1974-6, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Economic and
European Economic Affairs, 1976-9; UK Representative, EC, Brussels, 1979-85.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 25 1 file
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CAMPBELL, Sir Alan Hugh, GCMG (1919-2007)
Diplomat. Head of Chancery, Rome, 1952-5, Peking, 1955-7, United Nations, 1961-5; Head of Western Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1965-7; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Paris, 1967-9; Ambassador, Ethiopia,
1969-72, Rome, 1976-9.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 2 1 file
CAMPBELL, Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne, CMG (b.1935)
Diplomat. Joined Foreign Office 1957; Common Market Delegation, Brussels, 1961-63; FO, 1963-64; Second, later
First Secretary, Bangkok, 1964-66; News Department, FO, 1967-70; Head of Chancery, The Hague, 1970-74; European
Integration Department, FCO, 1974-77; Counsellor (Information), Paris, 1977-80; Royal College of Defence Studies,
1981; Counsellor, Jakarta, 1982-83; Head of Training Department, FCO, 1984-87; Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1988-91.
Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, since 1992; Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University, since 1993.
Interviewed 2003.
DOHP 68 1 file
CAPE, Mr Donald Paul Montagu Stewart, CMG, CBE (b.1923)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign Service, 1946. Served: Belgrade, 1946-49; FO, 1949-51; Lisbon, 1951-55; Singapore,
1955-57; FO, 1957-60; Bogota, 1960-61; Holy See, 1962-67; Head of Information Administration Department, FCO,
1968-70; Counsellor, Washington, 1970-73; Counsellor, Brasilia, 1973-75; Ambassador to Laos, 1976-78; Ambassador
and UK Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1978-83.
Interviewed 2001.
DOHP 42 1 file
CARLESS, Hugh Michael, CMG (b.1925)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign (subsequently Diplomatic) Service, 1950; 3rd Secretary, Kabul, 1951; 2nd Secretary,
Rio de Janeiro, 1953; Tehran, 1956; 1st Secretary, 1957; Foreign Office, 1958; Private Secretary to Minister of
State, 1961; Budapest, 1963; Civil Service Fellow, Department of Politics, Glasgow University, 1966; Counsellor
and Consul-General, Luanda, 1967-70; Counsellor, Bonn, 1970-73; Head of Latin American Department, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, 1973-77; Minister and Chargé d'Affaires, Buenos Aires, 1977-80; on secondment to Northern
Engineering Industries International Ltd, 1980-82; Ambassador to Venezuela, 1982-85.
Interviewed 2002.
DOHP 55 1 file
CARRICK, Sir Roger John, KCMG LVO (b.1937)
Diplomat. Served in Royal Navy, 1956-58. Joined Foreign (subsequently Diplomatic) Service, 1956; School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, 1961; Sofia, 1962; Foreign Office, 1965; Paris, 1967; Singapore, 1971; Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, 1973; Counsellor and Deputy Head, Personnel Operations Department, FCO, 1976; Visiting
Fellow, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1977-78; Counsellor, Washington,
1978; Head, Overseas Estate Department, FCO, 1982; Consul-General, Chicago, 1985-88; Assistant Under-Secretary of
State (Economic), FCO, 1988-90; Ambassador, Republic of Indonesia, 1990-94; High Commissioner to Australia, 1994-97.
Interviewed 2004.
DOHP 86 1 file
CARTER, Andrew, CMG (b.1943)
Diplomat. Assistant Master, Marlborough College, 1965-70. Joined Diplomatic Service, 1971; Warsaw, 1972; the
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Geneva, 1975; Bonn, 1975; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1978;
Brussels, 1986; Deputy Governor, Gibraltar, 1990-95; Minister, Moscow, 1995-97; UK Permanent Representative to
Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1997-2003.
Interviewed 2006.
DOHP 112 1 file
CARTLEDGE, Sir Bryan, KCMG (b 1931)
Diplomat. Queen's Royal Regiment, 1950-51. Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Stanford University, 1956-57; Research Fellow,
St Antony's College, Oxford, 1958-59 (Hon. Fellow, 1987). Entered Diplomatic Service, 1960; served in Foreign Office,
1960-61; Stockholm, 1961-63; Moscow, 1963-66; Diplomatic Service Administration Office, 1966-68; Tehran, 1968-70;
Harvard University, 1971-72; Counsellor, Moscow, 1972-75; Head of East European and Soviet Department, FCO, 1975-77;
Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to Prime Minister, 1977-79; Ambassador to Hungary, 1980-83; Assistant
Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1983-84; Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet, 1984-85; Ambassador to the Soviet Union,
1985-88.
Interviewed 2007.
DOHP 115 1 file
Please note that the full version of this interview is closed, and will be reviewed by the FCO in 2019. An
edited version is open to readers.
CLARK, Sir Terence Joseph, KBE CMG (b.1934)
Diplomat. While on his National Service with the RAF (1953-55), Clark was attached to the School of Slavonic
Studies, Cambridge, and joined the Foreign Service in 1955. His postings included: Middle Eastern Centre for Arab
Studies, (1956-57); Bahrain, (1957-58); Amman [Jordan], (1958-60); Casablanca [Morocco], (1961-62); Foreign Office,
(1962-65); Assistant Political Agent, Dubai, (1965-68); Belgrade [Yugoslavia], (1969-71); Head of Chancery, Muscat
[Masqat, Oman], (1972-73); Assistant Head of Middle East Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (1974-76);
Counsellor (Press and Information), Bonn [Germany], (1976-79); Chargé d'Affaires, Tripoli [Libya], (February-March
1981); Counsellor, Belgrade, (1979-82); Deputy Leader of the UK Delegation to the Conference on Security and
Co-operation in Europe, Madrid [Spain], (1982-83); Head of Information Department, FCO, (1983-85); Ambassador to
Iraq, (1985-89); Ambassador to Oman, (1990-94).
Interviewed 2002.
DOHP 64 1 file
COCKING, Brigadier Nicholas (b.1936)
Soldier. Joined the Army in 1954 and saw service in the Persian Gulf, Aden, Malaysia, Germany, and Northern Ireland,
ending his career with seven years as Commander of the British Mission attached to the Saudi National Guard.
Interviewed 2004.
DOHP 97 1 file
COLES, Sir (Arthur) John, GCMG (b.1937)
Diplomat. Served HM Forces, 1955-57. Joined Diplomatic Service, 1960; Middle Eastern Centre for Arabic Studies,
Lebanon, 1960-62; Third Secretary, Khartoum, 1962-64; FO (later FCO), 1964-68; Assistant Political Agent, Trucial
States (Dubai), 1968-71; FCO, 1971-75; Head of Chancery, Cairo, 1975-77; Counsellor (Developing Countries), UK
Permanent Mission to EEC, 1977-80; Head of South Asian Department, FCO, 1980-81; Private Secretary to Prime
Minister, 1981-84; Ambassador to Jordan, 1984-88; High Commissioner to Australia, 1988-91; Deputy Under-Secretary
of State, FCO, 1991-94; Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Diplomatic Service, 1994-97.
Interviewed 2000.
DOHP 46 1 file
COWPER-COLES, Sir Sherard Louis, KCMG, LVO (b.1955)
Joined HM Diplomatic Service, 1977: Third, later Second, Secretary, Cairo, 1980-83; First Secretary, Planning
Staff, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1983-85; Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, 1985-87;
First Secretary, Washington, 1987-91; Assistant Head, Security Policy Department, FCO, 1991-93; Resident
Associate, IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies), 1993-94; Head, Hong Kong Department, FCO, 1994-97;
Counsellor (Political) Paris, 1997-99; Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs, 1999-2001; Ambassador to: Israel, 2001-03; Saudi Arabia, 2003-07; Afghanistan, 2007-09;
Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009-10.
Interviewed 2011.
DOHP 129 1 file
CRADOCK, Sir Percy, GCMG, PC (1923-2010)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Kuala Lumpur, 1957, Hong Kong, 1961, Peking, 1962; Counsellor and Head of Chancery,
Peking 1966; Ambassador to East Germany, 1976; Leader of UK delegation to Comprehensive Test Ban Talks;
Ambassador to China, 1978-83; Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, 1984-92.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 26 1 file
CRAWFORD, Charles Graham, CMG (b.1954)
Diplomat. Entry to Diplomatic Service, 1979; FCO (South East Asia Department), 1979-80; 2nd, then 1st Secretary,
Belgrade, 1981-84; FCO speechwriter, 1985-87; 1st Secretary, Pretoria and Cape Town, 1987-91; FCO (Soviet, then
Eastern Department), 1991-93; Political Counsellor, Moscow, 1993-96; Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996-98;
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard, 1998-99; Deputy Political Director, FCO, 1999-2000; Director
(South East Europe), FCO, 2000; Ambassador to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, subsequently Serbia and Montenegro,
2001-03; Ambassador to Poland, 2003-07.
Interviewed 2008.
DOHP 117 1 file
See also Crawford's website (as referred to in his interview),
www.charlescrawford.biz.
CROSS, "Jasper" James Richard, CMG (b.1921)
Diplomat. Transcript of taped memoir of his experiences as Senior Trade Commissioner and head of the British
Government Office in Montreal, Canada, 1968-70, his kidnapping in 1970 by a terrorist group, the FLQ, and also
on the work of the Trade Commission Service in general.
Taped memoir.
DOHP 19 1 file
See also a copy of a debriefing interview between James Cross and J M Davey, aide to
Pierre Trudeau, following Cross's release by the Front de Libération du Québec.
Correspondence: Debriefing of James Cross, December 1970
© Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Canada (2009).
Source: Library and Archives Canada/Pierre Elliott Trudeau fonds/Volume 25, file 25.
CROWE, Sir Brian, KCMG (b.1938)
Diplomat. Joined Foreign Office, 1961; served: Moscow, 1962-64; London, 1965-67; Aden, 1967; Washington, 1968-73;
Bonn, 1973-76; Counsellor and Head of Policy Planning Staff, FCO, 1976-78; Head of Chancery, UK Permanent
Representative to EEC, Brussels, 1979-81; Counsellor and Head of EEC Department (External), FCO, 1982-84; Minister,
Commercial, Washington, 1985-89; Ambassador to Austria, 1989-92; Economic Director (Deputy Under-Secretary of State),
FCO, 1992-94; Director General for External Relations, Council of the European Union, 1994-2002.
Interviewed 2003.
DOHP 81 1 file
CULLIMORE, Charles Augustine Kaye, CMG (b.1933)
Diplomat. Northern Ireland Short Service Commission, 1955-57; HMOCS, Tanganyika, 1958-61; ICI Ltd, 1961-71;
joined HM Diplomatic Service, 1971; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1971-73; First Secretary, Bonn, 1973-77;
FCO, 1977-79; Counsellor, New Delhi, 1979-82; Deputy High Commissioner, Canberra, 1982-86; FCO, Head of Central
African Department, 1986-89; High Commissioner, Uganda, 1989-93.
Interviewed 2009.
DOHP 119 1 file
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DAIN, Sir David John Michael, KCVO, CMG (b.1940)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1963; Third, later Second Secretary, Tehran and Kabul, 1964-68; seconded
to Cabinet Office, 1969-72; First Secretary, Bonn, 1972-75; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1975-78; Head of
Chancery, Athens, 1978-81; Counsellor and Deputy High Commissioner, Nicosia, 1981-85; Head of Western European
Department, FCO, 1985-89; on attachment to Civil Service Selection Board, 1989-90; High Commissioner, Cyprus,
1990-94; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, then Director, South Asian and South-East Asian Departments, FCO,
1994-97; High Commissioner to Pakistan, 1997-2000.
Interviewed 2003.
DOHP 88 1 file
DAY, Sir Derek Malcolm, KCMG (b.1927)
Diplomat. Counsellor, Cyprus, 1972; Ambassador to Ethiopia, 1975-8; High Commissioner, Canada, 1984-7.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 29 1 file
DEAN, Cecil Roy (b.1927)
Diplomat, writer and broadcaster. After serving in the RAF (1945-48) in India and Pakistan, Dean joined the
Central Office of Information, where he worked for ten years. In 1958 he joined the Diplomatic Service, and his
subsequent diplomatic career included: Second, later First Secretary, Colombo [Sri Lanka], (1958-62); Vancouver
[Canada], (1962-64); Lagos [Nigeria], (1964-68); Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (1968-71); Consul, Houston
[United States], (1971), Acting Consul-General, (1972-73); FCO, (1973-76); Director, Arms Control and Disarmament
Research Unit, (1976-83); Deputy High Commissioner, Accra [Ghana], (1983-86), Acting High Commissioner, (1986).
Dean was also a member of the United Nations Secretary-General's expert group on disarmament institutions, (1980-81)
and editor of Arms Control and Disarmament, (1979-83), as well as being a national crossword champion.
Series of articles by Dean, 2002-2003
DOHP 66 1 file
DENMAN, Sir Roy, KCB CMG (1924-2006)
Joined Board of Trade, 1948; Assistant Private Secretary to successive Presidents, 1950-52; 1st Secretary,
British Embassy, Bonn, 1957-60; UK Delegation, Geneva, 1960-61; Counsellor, Geneva, 1965-67; Under-Secretary,
1967-70, Board of Trade; Deputy Secretary: Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-74; Department of Trade, 1974-75;
Second Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1975-77; Director-General for External Affairs, EEC Commission, 1977-82;
Head, Commission of European Communities Delegation in Washington, 1982-89; Business Fellow, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard, 1989-90. Member negotiating delegation with European Communities, 1970-72. Member,
British Overseas Trade Board, 1972-75.
Interviewed 1999.
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DOBLE, Denis Henry (b.1936)
Diplomat. Royal Air Force (1955-57); Colonial Office (1960-64), Assistant Private Secretary to Duncan Sandys,
Commonwealth and Colonial Secretary, (1963-64); Diplomatic Service (1965); First Secretary in Brussels [Belgium]
(1966-68) and Lagos [Nigeria] (1968-72); South Asian and Defence Departments, FCO (1972-75); First Secretary
(Economic), Islamabad [Pakistan] (1975-78); Head of Chancery, Lima [Peru] (1978-82); East African Department,
FCO (1982-84); Acting Deputy High Commissioner, Bombay [India] (1985); Deputy High Commissioner for Calcutta
(1985-87), then Kingston [Jamaica] (1987-91); Consul-General, Amsterdam [Netherlands] (1991-96).
Interviewed 2004.
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DONALDSON, Brian (b c 1945)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1965; Algiers, Management Officer, 1968; La Paz, Archivist, 1971; FCO,
Communications Operations Department, 1974; Lagos [Nigeria], Entry Clearance Officer (Visas), 1975; Luxembourg,
Vice-Consul, 1979; FCO, Trade Relations and Exports Department (COCOM desk), 1982; FCO, Assistant Private Secretary
to Minister of State (Malcolm Rifkind), 1983; Mauritius, 2nd (later 1st) Secretary, Aid/Commercial, 1985; Yaound้
[Cameroon], Deputy Head of Mission, 1989; Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1st Secretary, Immigration/Consular, 1992; FCO,
Personnel Operations Department, 1996; FCO, Deputy Head of Information Department, 1997; Namibia, High Commissioner,
1999; Madagascar, Ambassador, 2002; retired, 2005.
Interviewed 2007.
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EASTWOOD, Basil, CMG (b 1944)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1966; Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1967; Jedda, 1968; Colombo, 1969;
Cairo, 1972; Cabinet Office, 1976; FCO, 1978; Bonn, 1980; Khartoum, 1984; Athens, 1987; Director of Research and
Analysis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1991-96; Ambassador to Syria, 1996-2000; Project Director, Middle East
Institute, SOAS, 2000-01; Ambassador to Switzerland, 2001-04; Cecily's Fund (Charity for Zambian orphans).
Interviewed 2005.
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EDMONDS, John Christopher, CMG, CVO (b 1921)
Diplomat. Entered Royal Navy, 1939. Staff: of NATO Defence College, Paris, 1953-55; of C-in-C Home Fleet,
1956-57 (Commander, 1957); of Chief of Defence Staff, 1958-59. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1959; Foreign Office,
1959-60; 1st Secretary (Commercial), Tokyo, 1960-62; Foreign Office, 1963-67; 1st Secretary and Head of Chancery,
Ankara, 1967-68; Counsellor: Ankara, 1968-71; Paris, 1972-74; Head of Arms Control and Disarmament Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1974-77; Leader, UK Delegation to Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Negotiations,
Geneva, with personal rank of Ambassador, 1978-81. Chairman, Joint SDP-Liberal Alliance Commission on Defence
and Disarmament, 1984-86.
Interviewed 2009.
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EDWARDS, John, CMG (b 1934)
Diplomat. Military Service, 1953-55; Ministry of Supply, 1958; Colonial Office, 1960; Private Secretary to Hugh
Fraser, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1961; Principal: Nature Conservancy, 1962; Ministry
of Overseas Development, 1965; First Secretary (Development), and UK Permanent Representative to ECAFE, Bangkok,
Thailand, 1968; Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development, 1971; Head of East Africa Development
Division, Nairobi, Kenya, 1972; Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development, 1976; Head of British
Development Division in the Caribbean, Barbados, and UK Director, Caribbean Development Bank, 1978; Head, West
Indian and Atlantic Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1981-84; Deputy High Commissioner, Kenya, 1984-88;
High Commissioner, Lesotho, 1988-91; High Commissioner, Botswana, 1991-94; Head of UK Delegation, EC Monitoring
Mission in former Yugoslavia, 1995-99.
Interviewed 2007.
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FAIRWEATHER, Sir Patrick Stanislaus, KCMG (b 1936)
National Service in Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment, 1955-57. Entered Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1965;
2nd Secretary, Rome, 1966-69; FCO, 1969-70; 1st Secretary (Economic), Paris, 1970-73; FCO, 1973-75; 1st
Secretary and Head of Chancery, Vientiane, 1975-76; 1st Secretary, UK Representation to EEC, Brussels, 1976-78;
Counsellor (Economic and Commercial), Athens, 1978-83; Head of European Community Department (Internal), FCO,
1983-85; Ambassador to Angola, 1985-87; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1987-90; Deputy Under-Secretary
of State (Middle East/Africa), FCO, 1990-92; Ambassador to Italy and (non-resident) to Albania, 1992-96.
Interviewed 2011.
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FEARN, Sir (Patrick) Robin, KCMG (1934-2006)
Diplomat. National Service, Intelligence Corps, 1952-54. Overseas marketing, Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd, 1957-61;
entered Foreign Service, 1961; FO, 1961-62; Third, later Second Secretary, Caracas, 1962-64; Havana, 1965; First
Secretary, Budapest, 1966-68; FCO, 1969-72; Head of Chancery, Vientiane, 1972-75; Assistant Head of Science and
Technology Department, FCO, 1975-76; Counsellor, Head of Chancery and Consul General, Islamabad, 1977-79; Head
of South America Department, FCO, 1979-82; Head of Falkland Islands Department, FCO, 1982; Royal College of
Defence Studies, 1983; Ambassador to Cuba, 1984-86; Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Americas), FCO, 1986-89;
Ambassador to Spain, 1989-94.
Interviewed 2002.
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Please note that the full version of this interview is closed, and will be reviewed by the FCO in 2014.
An edited version is open to readers.
FENN, Sir Nicholas, GCMG (b 1936)
Diplomat. Third Secretary, British Embassy, Rangoon, 1959-63; Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1963-67; First Secretary, British Interests Section, Swiss Embassy,
Algiers, 1967-69; First Secretary (Public Relations), UK Mission to United Nations, New York, 1969-72; Deputy
Head, Energy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1972-75; Counsellor, Peking, 1975-77; Head of News
Department and FCO Spokesman, 1979-82; Spokesman to last Governor of Rhodesia, 1979-80; Ambassador to Rangoon,
1982-86; Ambassador to Dublin, 1986-91; High Commissioner in New Delhi, 1991-1996.
Interviewed 2010.
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FERGUSSON, Sir Ewen, GCMG GCVO (b.1932)
Joined Foreign (later Diplomatic) Service, 1956; Assistant Private Secretary to Minister of Defence, 1957-59;
British Embassy, Addis Ababa, 1960; FO, 1963; British Trade Development Office, New York, 1967; Counsellor and Head
of Chancery, Office of UK Permanent Representative to European Communities, 1972-75; Private Secretary to Foreign
and Commonwealth Secretary, 1975-78; Assistant Under Secretary of State, FCO, 1978-82; Ambassador to South Africa,
1982-84; Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Middle East and Africa), FCO, 1984-87; Ambassador to France, 1987-92.
Interviewed 1998.
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FRETWELL, Sir Major John Emsley, GCMG (b.1930)
Diplomat. Diplomatic Service, 1953; 3rd Secretary, Hong Kong, 1954-55; 2nd Secretary, Peking, 1955-57; Foreign
Office, 1957-59; 1st Secretary, Moscow, 1959-62; FO, 1962-67; 1st Secretary (Commercial), Washington, 1967-70;
Commercial Counsellor, Warsaw, 1971-73; Head of European Integration Department (Internal), Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, 1973-76; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1976-79; Minister, Washington, 1980-81; Ambassador to
France, 1982-87. Political Director and Deputy to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1987-90; Specialist
Adviser, House of Lords, 1992-93.
Interviewed 1996.
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GILLMORE, David Howe Gillmore, Baron, GCMG (1934-1998)
Diplomat. HM Diplomatic Service, 1970; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970-72; First Secretary, Moscow, 1972-75;
Counsellor, UK Delegation, Vienna, 1975-78; Head of Defence Department, FCO, 1979-81; Assistant Under Secretary of
State, FCO, 1981-83; High Commissioner in Malaysia, 1983-86; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1986-90;
Visiting Fellow: Harvard University, 1990-91; WEU Institute, Paris, 1990-91; Permanent Under-Secretary of State,
FCO, and Head of Diplomatic Service, 1991-94.
Interviewed 1996.
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GORE-BOOTH, Hon Sir David Alwyn, KCMG KCVO (1943-2004)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign Office, 1964; Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1964; Third Secretary, Baghdad, 1966;
Third, later Second Secretary, Lusaka, 1967; FCO, 1969; Second Secretary, Tripoli, 1969; FCO, 1971; First Secretary,
UK Permanent Representation to European Communities, Brussels, 1974; Assistant Head of Financial Relations Department,
FCO, 1978; Counsellor, Jedda, 1980; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, UK Mission to UN, New York, 1983; Head of Policy
Planning Staff, FCO, 1987; Assistant Under Secretary of State (ME), FCO, 1989. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1993;
High Commissioner, New Delhi, 1996-98.
Interviewed 1999.
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GRAY, Sir John Walton David, KBE CMG (1936-2003)
Diplomat. National Service, 1954-56. Joined Foreign Service, 1962; served: Mecas, 1962; Bahrain Agency, 1964;
FO, 1967; Geneva, 1970; Sofia, 1974; Counsellor (Commercial), 1978, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, 1980, Jedda;
Head of Maritime, Aviation and Environment Department, FCO, 1982-85; Ambassador to Lebanon, 1985-88; Ambassador
and UK Permanent Representative to OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), Paris, 1988-92;
Ambassador to Belgium, 1992-96. Chairman, OECD Information Policy Working Group, 1980-82; Rapporteur, Study Team
on Performance of OECD's Centre for Co-operation with European Economies in Transition, 1994.
Interviewed 2001.
DOHP 76 1 file
Please note that the full version of this interview is closed, and will be reviewed by the FCO in 2014. An
edited version is open to readers.
GREENHILL OF HARROW, Denis Arthur Greenhill, Baron, GCMG, OBE (1913-2000)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Bulgaria, 1947-9, Washington, 1949-51; Counsellor, UK Delegation to NATO, 1955-6,
Singapore, 1956-9, Washington 1959-64; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1969-73.
Interviewed 1996.
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GREENSTOCK, Sir Jeremy Quentin, GCMG (b.1943)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service (Nigeria desk), 1969; Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1970; Dubai, 1972;
Private Secretary to the Ambassador, Washington, 1974; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Planning Staff, 1978;
Personnel Operations Department, 1979; North East and North African Department, 1981; Counsellor (Commercial), Jedda,
then Riyadh, 1983; Head of Chancery, Paris, 1987; FCO, Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Western and Southern
Europe, including Bosnia), 1990; Minister, Washington, 1994; FCO, Deputy Under Secretary of State, 1995; Political
Director, 1996; British Permanent Representative to the UN, 1998; Special Representative, Baghdad (retirement
postponed) 2003-4.
Interviewed 2004.
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HALL, Sir Peter Edward, KBE CMG (b.1938)
Diplomat. Foreign Office, 1961-63; 3rd Secretary, Warsaw, 1963-66; 2nd Secretary, New Delhi, 1966-69; Foreign
and Commonwealth Office (European Integration Department), 1969-72; 1st Secretary, UK Permanent Representation to
EEC, 1972-76; Assistant Head, Financial Relations Department, FCO, 1976-77; Counsellor, Caracas, 1977-78; Head of
British Information Services, New York, 1978-83 and Counsellor, British Embassy, Washington, 1981-83; Director of
Research, FCO, 1983-86; Under Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1986-88; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 1988-89;
Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92; Adviser to Lord Carrington, 1992, Lord Owen, 1992-93, Peace Conference on
Yugoslavia; Ambassador to Argentina, 1993-97.
Interviewed 2002.
DOHP 89 1 file
HANNAY, Lord Hannay of Chiswick, GCMG CH (b.1935)
Diplomat. Foreign Office, 1959-60; Tehran, 1960-61; 3rd Secretary, Kabul, 1961-63; 2nd Secretary, FO, 1963-65;
2nd, later 1st Secretary, UK Delegation to European Communities, Brussels, 1965-70; 1st Secretary, UK Negotiating
Team with European Communities, 1970-72; Chef de Cabinet to Sir Christopher Soames, Vice President of EEC, 1973-77;
Head of Energy, Science and Space Department, FCO, 1977-79; Head of Middle East Department, FCO, 1979; Assistant
Under-Secretary of State (European Community), FCO, 1979-84; Minister, Washington, 1984-85; Ambassador and UK
Permanent Representative to European Communities, Brussels, 1985-90.
Interviewed 1999.
DOHP 38 1 file
HAWLEY, Sir Donald, KCMG MBE (1921-2008)
Diplomat. Served in HM Forces, 1941. Sudan Political Service, 1944; joined Sudan Judiciary, 1947. Called to Bar,
Inner Temple, 1951. Chief Registrar, Sudan Judiciary, and Registrar-General of Marriages, 1951; resigned from Sudan
Service, 1955; joined Foreign Service, 1955; Foreign Office, 1956: Political Agent, Trucial States, in Dubai, 1958;
Head of Chancery, British Embassy, Cairo, 1962; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, British High Commission, Lagos,
1965; Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, Durham University, 1967; Counsellor (Commercial), Baghdad, 1968;
Consul-General, Muscat, 1971; Ambassador to Oman, 1971-75; Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, 1975-77; British High Commissioner in Malaysia, 1977-81.
Interviewed 2007.
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HENDERSON, Sir Nicholas, GCMG KCVO (1919-2009)
Diplomat. Ministry of War Transport 1940; Office of the Minister Resident at Cairo 1942; Assistant Private
Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1944; Second Secretary Washington 1947; Athens 1949;
Foreign Office 1950; First Secretary (Information) Vienna 1953; First Secretary and Consul Santiago 1956; Foreign
Office 1959: Counsellor 1962; Head of Northern Department 1963; Private Secretary to Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs 1963; Minister Madrid 1965; Ambassador to Warsaw 1969; Ambassador to Bonn 1972; Ambassador to
Paris 1975; Ambassador to Washington 1979-82.
Interviewed 1998.
DOHP 32 1 file
HIBBERT, Sir Reginald Alfred, GCMG (1922-2002)
Diplomat. Served with SOE and 4th Hussars in Albania and Italy, 1943-45. Entered Foreign Service, 1946; served
in Bucharest, Vienna, Guatemala, Ankara, Brussels; Chargé d'Affaires, Ulan Bator, 1964-66; Research Fellow,
Leeds University, 1966-67; Political Adviser's Office, Singapore, 1967-69; Political Adviser to C-in-C Far East,
1970-71; Minister, Bonn, 1972-75; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1975-76; Deputy Under-Secretary of State,
FCO, 1976-79; Ambassador to France, 1979-82.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 24 1 file
HICKMAN, John Kyrle, CMG (1927-2001)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Wellington, New Zealand, 1959-62, Spain, 1966-7; Consul-General, Bilbao, 1967-9; Deputy
High Commissioner, Singapore, 1969-71; Counsellor (later Chargé) Ireland, 1974-7; Ambassador to Ecuador,
1977-80, Chile, 1982-7.
Interviewed 1995.
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HIGGINS, Desmond (b 1930)
Diplomat. Ministry of Supply, Liverpool, 1947; National Service, 1947-49; joined Commonwealth Relations Office,
1956; 3rd Secretary (Information), New Delhi, 1957-59; Commonwealth Relations Office, 1960; British High
Commission, Lagos, 1960-61; 2nd Secretary, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1962-65; Commonwealth Relations
Office, 1965; British High Commission, Bathurst, The Gambia, 1966-68; Commonwealth Relations Office (Cultural
Relations Department); British High Commission, Ottawa, 1972-76.
Interviewed 2010.
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HUEBENER, Mrs Rosamund (née Benson)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign Office, 1949; Western Department, FO, 1949-52; UKDEL, NATO, 1952-4;
Bonn, 1954-c1957 (specialising on military issues); China Political Desk, FO, c1957-59;
Consul and 1st Secretary (Commercial) Prague, c1959-61.
Interviewed 2000.
DOHP 43 1 file
HUGH-JONES, Sir Wynn, LVO (b 1923)
Diplomat. Served in RAF, 1943-46. Entered Foreign Service (now Diplomatic Service), 1947; Foreign Office, 1947-49;
Jedda, 1949-52; Paris, 1952-56; FO, 1956-59; Chargé d'Affaires, Conakry, 1959-60; Head of Chancery, Rome,
1960-64; FO, 1964-66, Counsellor, 1964; Consul, Elizabethville (later Lubumbashi), 1966-68; Counsellor and Head of
Chancery, Ottawa, 1968-70; FCO, 1971, attached Lord President's Office; Cabinet Office, 1972-73; Director-General,
English-Speaking Union, 1973-77; Secretary-General, Liberal Party, 1977-83; Joint Honorary Treasurer, Liberal Party,
1984-87.
Interviewed 2005.
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HURD, The Rt Hon The Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE (b.1930)
Diplomat. HM Diplomatic Service, 1952-66; served in: Peking, 1954-56; UK Mission to United Nations, 1956-60;
Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1960-63; Rome, 1963-66. Joined Conservative
Research Department, 1966; Head of Foreign Affairs Section, 1968; Private Secretary to Leader of the Opposition,
1968-70; Political Secretary to Prime Minister, 1970-74; Opposition Spokesman on European Affairs, 1976-79; Minister
of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1979-83; Minister of State, Home Office, 1983-84; Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland, 1984-85, for Home Department, 1985-89; Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
1989-95.
Interviewed 2005.
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HUTSON, John Whiteford OBE (b.1927)
Diplomat. Consul (Commercial), San Francisco, 1963-7; Head of Chancery, Bulgaria, 1967-9; Counsellor (Commercial),
Baghdad, 1971-2, Moscow, 1976-9; Consul-General, Frankfurt, 1979-83, Casablanca, 1984-7.
Interviewed 1996.
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IMRAY, Sir Colin (Henry), KBE CMG (b.1933)
Diplomat. CRO, 1957; Canberra, 1958-61; CRO, 1961-63; Nairobi, 1963-66; FCO, 1966-70; British Trade Commissioner,
Montreal, 1970-73; Counsellor, Head of Chancery and Consul-General, Islamabad, 1973-77; RCDS, 1977; Commercial
Counsellor, Tel Aviv, 1977-80; Rayner Project Officer, 1980; Deputy High Commissioner, Bombay, 1980-84; Assistant
Under-Secretary of State (Deputy Chief Clerk and Chief Inspector), FCO, 1984-85; High Commissioner: Tanzania,
1986-89; Bangladesh, 1989-93.
Interviewed 2002.
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JAY, Lord Jay of Ewelme, GCMG (b 1946)
Diplomat. Ministry of Overseas Development, 1969-73; UK Delegation, International Monetary Fund and the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, 1973-75; Ministry of Overseas Development,
1976-78; First Secretary (Aid), New Delhi, 1978-81; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1981-85 (Planning staff,
1981-82, Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary, 1982-85); Counsellor: Cabinet Office, 1985-87;
Counsellor: (Financial and Commercial), Paris, 1987-90; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for EC Affairs, FCO,
1990-93; Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Director for EC and Economic Affairs), FCO, 1994-96; Ambassador to
France, 1996-2001; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FCO and Head of the Diplomatic Service, 2002-06; Prime
Minister's Personal Representative for G8 Summits, 2005-06.
Interviewed 2007.
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See also Lord Jay's evidence before
the Chilcot Inquiry on the
Iraq War, June 2010.
JAY, The Hon Peter (b 1937)
Writer, broadcaster and diplomat. Assistant Principal and Principal, Treasury, 1964-67; Economics Editor, the
Times, 1967-77; Ambassador to United States, 1977-79; Director, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1979-83; President,
TV-am, 1983-; Presenter, A Week in Politics, Channel 4, 1983-86; and Economics Editor, BBC, 1990-2001.
Interviewed 2006.
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KEEBLE, Sir (Herbert Ben) Curtis, GCMG (1922-2008)
Diplomat. Served HM Forces, 1942-47. Entered HM Foreign (subsequently Diplomatic) Service, 1947; served in Jakarta,
1947-49; Foreign Office, 1949-51; Berlin, 1951-54; Washington, 1954-58; Foreign Office, 1958-63; Counsellor and Head
of European Economic Organisations Department, 1963-65; Counsellor (Commercial), Berne, 1965-68; Minister, Canberra,
1968-71; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1971-73; HM Ambassador, German Democratic Republic, 1974-76; Deputy
Under Secretary of State (Chief Clerk), FCO, 1976-78; Ambassador at Moscow, 1978-82; Special Adviser, House of
Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, 1985-86.
Interviewed 2001.
DOHP 51 1 file
KERR, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, GCMG (b 1942)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1966; served Foreign Office, Moscow, Rawalpindi, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office; Private Secretary to Permanent Under Secretary, FCO, 1974-79; Head of DM1 Division, HM Treasury, 1979-81;
Principal Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1981-84; Head of Chancery, Washington, 1984-87; Assistant
Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1987-90; Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to the EU, Brussels, 1990-95;
Ambassador to the USA, 1995-97; Permanent Under Secretary of State, FCO, and Head of the Diplomatic Service,
1997-2002; Secretary-General, European Convention, 2002-03.
Interviewed 2004.
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KILLICK, Sir John Edward, GCMG (1919-2004)
Diplomat. Served with HM Forces, 1939-46: Suffolk Regiment, W Africa Force and Airborne Forces. Foreign Office,
1946-48; Control Commission and High Commission for Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt and Bonn), 1948-51; Private Secretary
to Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign Office, 1951-54; British Embassy, Addis Ababa, 1954-57; Canadian National
Defence College, 1957-58; Western Department, Foreign Office, 1958-62; Imperial Defence College, 1962; Counsellor
and Head of Chancery, British Embassy, Washington, 1963-68; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1968-71;
Ambassador to USSR, 1971-73; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO and Permanent Representative on Council of WEU,
1973-75; Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to NATO, 1975-79.
Interviewed 2002.
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LAMB, Sir Albert Thomas (Sir Archie), KBE CMG DFC (b.1921)
Diplomat. Served RAF 1941-46. Foreign Office 1938-41; Embassy, Rome [Italy], 1947-50; Consulate-General, Genoa,
1950; Embassy, Bucharest [Romania], 1950-53; Foreign Office 1953-55; Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies, 1955-57;
Political Residency, Bahrain, 1957-61; Foreign Office 1961-65; Embassy, Kuwait, 1965; Political Agent in Abu Dhabi,
1965-68; Inspector, 1968-70, Senior Inspector, 1970-73, Assistant Under-Secretary of State and Chief Inspector,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1973-74; Ambassador to Kuwait, 1974-77; Ambassador to Norway, 1978-80.
Interviewed 2000.
DOHP 59 1 file
LEAHY, Sir John Henry Gladstone, KCMG (b.1928)
Diplomat. RAF, 1950-52; FO, 1952-54 (Assistant Private Secretary to Minister of State, 1953-54); 3rd, later 2nd
Secretary, Singapore, 1955-57; FO, 1957-58; 2nd, later 1st Secretary, Paris, 1958-62; FO, 1962-65; Head of Chancery,
Tehran, 1965-68; Counsellor, FCO, 1969; Head of Personnel Services Department, 1969-70; Head of News Department,
FCO, 1971-73; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Paris, 1973-75; seconded as Under Secretary, NI Office, 1975-76;
Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1977-79; Ambassador to South Africa, 1979-82; Deputy Under-Secretary of
State, FCO, 1982-84; High Commissioner, Australia, 1984-88.
Interviewed 2001.
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LEVER, Sir Paul, KCMG (b.1944)
3rd Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1966-67; 3rd, later 2nd Secretary, Helsinki, 1967-71; 2nd, later
1st Secretary, UK Delegation to NATO, 1971-73; FCO, 1973-81; Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary
(David Owen), 1978-81; Chef de Cabinet to Christopher Tugendhat, Vice-President of EEC, 1981-85; Head of UN
Department, FCO, 1985-86; Head of Defence Department, 1986-87; Head of Security Policy Department, FCO, 1987-90;
Ambassador and Head, UK Delegation to Conventional Arms Control Negotiations, Vienna, 1990-92; Assistant
Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1992-94; Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office, and Chairman, Joint Intelligence
Committee, 1994-96; Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Director for EU and Economic Affairs), FCO, 1996-97;
Ambassador to Germany, 1997-2003.
Interviewed 2011.
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LOGAN, Sir Donald Arthur, KCMG (b. 1917)
Diplomat. Joined the Foreign (subsequently Diplomatic) Service, in December 1945, and his diplomatic career
included: Foreign Office, 1945-1947; HM Embassy, Tehran [Iran], 1947-1951; Foreign Office, 1951-1953; Assistant
Political Agent, Kuwait, 1953-1955; Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
[John Selwyn-Lloyd], 1956-1958; HM Embassy, Washington, 1958-1960; HM Ambassador to Guinea, 1960-1962; Foreign
Office, 1962-1964; Information Counsellor, British Embassy, Paris [France] 1964-1970; Ambassador to Bulgaria,
1970-1973; Deputy Permanent UK Representative to NATO, 1973-1975; Ambassador and Permanent Leader, UK Delegation
to UN Conference on Law of the Sea, 1976-1977; Leader, UK delegation to Conference on Marine Living Resources of
Antarctica, Buenos Aires [Argentina] and Canberra [Australia], 1978-1980.
Interviewed 2002.
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Please note that this transcript is an excerpt from Logan's memoirs. See also account of the Suez Crisis by
Logan in MISC 30: more details are available on
the Janus webserver.
LONGWORTH, Peter, CMG (b. 1942)
Journalist, 1963-74: Labour and Industrial Correspondent, Bristol Evening Post, 1964-66; Lobby Correspondent,
Western Daily Press, 1966-68; Diplomatic Correspondent, Westminster Press, 1968-74. Joined Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, 1974; First Secretary, FCO, 1974-77; First Secretary (Economic), Bonn, 1977-81; Head of
Chancery and HM Consul, Sofia, 1981-84; FCO, 1984-87; Counsellor (Economic and Commercial), Copenhagen, 1987-91;
Deputy Head of Mission, Counsellor (Economic and Commercial) and Consul General, Seoul, 1991-94; Consul General,
Johannesburg, and Director of UK Trade Promotion and Investment, South Africa, 1994-98; High Commissioner,
Zimbabwe, 1998-2001.
Interviewed 2006.
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LUCAS, Ivor Thomas Mark, CMG (b.1927)
Diplomat. Served in Royal Artillery, 1945-48 (Captain). Entered Diplomatic Service, 1951; Middle East Centre for
Arab Studies, Lebanon, 1952; 3rd, later 2nd Secretary, Bahrain, Sharjah and Dubai, 1952-56; Foreign Office, 1956-59;
1st Secretary, Karachi, 1959-62; 1st Secretary and Head of Chancery, Tripoli, 1962-66; Foreign Office, 1966-68;
Counsellor, Aden, 1968-69 (Chargé d'Affaires, August 1968-February 1969); Deputy High Commissioner, Kaduna, Nigeria,
1969-71; Counsellor, Copenhagen, 1972-75; Head of Middle East Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1975-79;
Ambassador to Oman, 1979-81, to Syria, 1982-84.
Interviewed 2005.
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LYNE, Sir Roderic Michael John, KBE CMG (b 1948)
Diplomat. Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1970; Army School of Languages, 1971; Moscow, 1972-74; Dakar, 1974-76;
Eastern European and Soviet Department, FCO, 1976-79; Rhodesia Department, FCO, 1979; Assistant Private Secretary
to Foreign Secretary, 1979-82; UK Mission to UN, New York, 1982-86; Visiting Resident Fellow, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, 1986-87; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Moscow, 1987-90; Head of Soviet Department, 1990-92,
Head of Eastern Department, 1992-93, FCO; on secondment as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1993-96; on
secondment as Director for Policy Development, CIS ME and Africa, British Gas, 1996; UK Permanent Representative
to Office of UN and other international organisations, Geneva, 1997-2000; Ambassador to Russia, 2000-2004.
Interviewed 2006.
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MAITLAND, Sir Donald James Dundas, GCMG OBE (1922-2010)
Diplomat. Director, Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon, 1956-60; Counsellor, Egypt, 1963-5; Head of News
Department, 1965; Ambassador to Libya, 1969-70; Press Secretary, Prime Minister's Private Office, 1970-3; UK
Permanent Representative, United Nations, 1973-4; Ambassador to EEC, 1975-9; Permanent Under-Secretary, Department
of Energy, 1980-2.
Interviewed 1997.
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MALLABY, Sir Christopher Leslie George, GCMG GCVO (b.1936)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Berlin, 1966-9; Deputy Director, British Trade Development Office, New York, 1971-4;
Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Soviet Union, 1975-7; Head, Arms Control and Disarmament Department, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, 1977-9; Head, East European and Soviet Department, 1979-80; Minister, Bonn, 1982-5; Deputy
Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1985-8; Ambassador to West Germany, 1988-92, and to France, 1993-6.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 28 1 file
MARGETSON, Sir John William Denys, KCMG (b.1927)
Lieutenant, Life Guards, 1947-49. Colonial Service, District Officer, Tanganyika, 1951-60 (Private Secretary to
Governor, Sir Edward Twining, 1956-57); entered Foreign Service, 1960; The Hague, 1962-64; speech writer to
Foreign Secretary, George Brown, 1966-68; Head of Chancery, Saigon, 1968-70; Counsellor 1971, seconded to Cabinet
Secretariat, 1971-74; Head of Chancery, UK Delegation to NATO, 1974-78; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1978-80; seconded
to Ministry of Defence as Senior Civilian Instructor, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1981-82; Ambassador and
Deputy Permanent Representative to United Nations, New York, and President, UN Trusteeship Council, 1983-84;
Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1984-87; Special Representative of the Foreign Secretary, 1994-98.
Interviewed 2007.
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McBAIN, (David) Malcolm, LVO (b.1928)
Diplomat. Ministry of Civil Aviation appointments in Tripoli, Libya, 1949-51, New Delhi, 1953-54; Diplomatic
Service: New Delhi, 1958-61; Kenya, 1963-67; Thailand, 1968-75; Brunei, 1978-81; Texas, 1981-84; Ambassador to
Madagascar, 1984-87.
Interviewed 2000.
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McLAREN, Sir Robin John Taylor, KCMG (1934-2010)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Rome, 1964-8; Assistant Political Adviser, Hong Kong, 1968-9; Counsellor and Head of
Chancery, Denmark, 1975-8; Head of Hong Kong and General Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1978-9; Head
of Far Eastern Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1979-81; Political Adviser, Hong Kong, 1981-5; Ambassador
to the Philippines, 1985-7; Assistant Under-Secretary, FCO, 1987-90; Ambassador to China, 1991-4.
Interviewed 1996.
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McLOUGHLIN, Leslie J (b.1935)
Instructor and interpreter in Arabic. After studying history at Manchester University, McLoughlin spent two years
in National Service as an instructor officer in the Army Educational Corps (1955-57). At the direction of the Army
he returned to university, at Durham, to learn Arabic (1960-61), and joined the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies
(MECAS) in 1961. After a spell teaching Arabic to British forces in Aden [Yemen] between 1962 and 1964, McLoughlin
became Principal Instructor at MECAS from 1965 to 1968. For a short time, McLoughlin taught Arabic outside MECAS,
first at Edinburgh University [Scotland] between 1969 and 1970, and also as a visiting professor at the University
of Pennsylvania [United States] in the summer of 1969, then at Columbia University in 1970. He then returned to
MECAS once again, remaining there between 1970 and 1975. McLoughlin's other duties have included acting as a
Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence interpreter from 1983 onwards, and he is also a Fellow of the Institute of
Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Interviewed 2003
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MELLON, Sir James, KCMG (b.1929)
Diplomat. Department of Agriculture for Scotland, 1953-60; Agricultural Attaché, Copenhagen and The Hague,
1960-63; Foreign Office, 1963-64; Head of Chancery, Dakar, 1964-66; UK Delegation to European Communities, 1967-72;
Counsellor, 1970; Head of Science and Technology Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1973-75; Commercial
Counsellor, East Berlin, 1975-76; Head of Trade Relations and Export Department, FCO, 1976-78; High Commissioner in
Ghana and Ambassador to Togo, 1978-83; Ambassador to Denmark, 1983-86; Director-General for Trade and Investment,
United States, and Consul-General, New York, 1986-88.
Interviewed 2003.
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MEYER, Sir Christopher John Rome, KCMG (b.1944)
Diplomat. 3rd Secretary, Foreign Office, 1966-67; Army School of Education, 1967-68; 3rd, later 2nd, Secretary,
Moscow, 1968-70; 2nd Secretary, Madrid, 1970-73; 1st Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1973-78; 1st
Secretary, UK Permanent Representative to European Communities, 1978-82; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Moscow,
1982-84; Head of News Department, FCO, 1984-88; Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard, 1988-89;
Minister (Commercial), 1989-92, Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, 1992-93, Washington; on secondment to the
Cabinet Office, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1994- 96; Ambassador to Germany, 1997; Ambassador to
United States, 1997-2003; Chairman, Press Complaints Commission, 2003-.
Interviewed 2004.
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MILES, (Frank) Stephen, CMG (b.1920)
Diplomat. Fleet Air Arm, 1942-46 (Lt (A) RNVR); Scottish Home Department, 1948; Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
1948-80. Miles served in: New Zealand, 1949-52; East and West Pakistan, 1954-57; Ghana, 1959-62; Uganda, 1962-63;
British Deputy High Commissioner, Tanzania, 1963-65 (Acting High Commissioner, 1963-64); Acting High Commissioner
in Ghana, March-April 1966; Consul-General, St Louis [United States], 1967-70; Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta
[India], 1970-74; High Commissioner, Zambia, 1974-78; High Commissioner, Bangladesh, 1978-79.
Interviewed 1996.
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MILES, (Richard) Oliver, CMG (b.1936)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1960; served in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Aden, Mukalla, Nicosia, Jedda; Counsellor,
Athens, 1977-80; Head of Near East and North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1980-83; Ambassador
to: Libya, 1984; Luxembourg, 1985-88; Under-Secretary on loan to Home Civil Service, Belfast, 1988-90; Assistant
Under-Secretary of State (Economic), FCO, 1990-91; Director General of Joint Directorate, Overseas Trade Services,
FCO/Department of Trade and Industry, 1991-93; Ambassador to Greece, 1993-96.
Interviewed 2004.
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Please note that the full version of this interview is closed, and will be reviewed by the FCO in 2016.
An edited version is open to readers.
MOBERLY, Sir John Campbell, KBE, CMG (1925-2004)
Diplomat. War Service in Royal Navy, 1943-47 (despatches). Entered Foreign (now Diplomatic) Service, 1950;
Political Officer, Kuwait, 1954-56; Political Agent, Doha, 1959-62; First Secretary, Athens, 1962-66; Counsellor,
Washington, 1969-73; Director, Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1973-75; Ambassador, Jordan, 1975-79;
Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1979-82; Ambassador, Iraq, 1982-85; Consultant, then Associate Fellow,
Middle East Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1986-2003.
Interviewed 2002.
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MORLAND, Martin Robert, CMG (b.1933)
Diplomat. National Service with the Grenadier Guards, 1954-56; British Embassy, Rangoon [Burma, later Myanmar],
1957-60; News Department, Foreign Office, 1961; UK Delegation to Common Market negotiations, Brussels [Belgium],
1962-63; Foreign Office, 1963-65; UK Disarmament Delegation, Geneva [Switzerland], 1965-67; Private Secretary to
Lord Chalfont [Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office], 1967-68; European Integration Department, FCO,
1968-73; Counsellor, 1973-77, Rome [Italy], seconded temporarily to Cabinet Office to head EEC Referendum
Information Unit, 1975; Head of Maritime Aviation and Environment Department, FCO, 1977-79; Counsellor and Head
of Chancery, Washington [United States], 1979-82; seconded to Hardcastle and Company Limited, 1982-84;
Under-Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1984-86; Ambassador to Burma, 1986-90; Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative
to Office of United Nations and other international organisations, Geneva, 1990-93.
Interviewed 2006.
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MUNRO, Sir Alan Gordon, KCMG (b.1935)
Diplomat. Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1958-60; British Embassy, Beirut, 1960-62; Kuwait, 1961; FO, 1963-65;
Head of Chancery, Benghazi, 1965-66 and Tripoli, 1966-68; FO, 1968-73; Consul (Commercial), 1973-74, Consul-General,
1974-77, Rio de Janeiro; Head of East African Department, FCO, 1977-78; Head of Middle East Department, FCO, 1979;
Head of Personnel Operations Department, FCO, 1979-81; Regional Marketing Director (Middle East), Ministry of
Defence, 1981-83; Ambassador to Algeria, 1984-87; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Middle East/Africa, FCO, 1987-89;
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1989-93.
Interviewed 1996.
DOHP 13 1 file
MUNRO, Colin Andrew, CMG (b.1946)
Diplomat. Assistant Principal, Board of Inland Revenue, 1968-69; Diplomatic Service, 1969;
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (SW Pacific Department), 1969-71; Third, later Second, Secretary, Bonn, 1971-73;
FCO (Commonwealth Co-ordination Department), 1973; Second, later First, Secretary, Kuala Lumpur, 1973-77; FCO
(Defence Department), 1977-79; FCO, Private Secretary to Minister of State (Peter Blaker), 1979-80; Head of
Chancery, Bucharest, 1981-82; FCO (Western European Department), 1983-84, Assistant Head of Department, 1985-87;
Deputy Head of Mission, East Berlin, 1987-90; Consul General, Frankfurt, 1990-93; FCO (Head of OSCE and Council
of Europe Department), 1993-97; Ambassador to Republic of Croatia, 1997-2000; Deputy High Representative, Mostar,
2001; Royal College of Defence Studies, 2002; UK Permanent Representative to OSCE, Vienna, 2003-07.
Interviewed 2009.
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Also includes the text of an article by Munro: Britain, Berlin, German Unification
and the fall of the Soviet Empire, for the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London, vol XXXI,
No.2, November 2009.
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O'KEEFFE, (Peter) Laurence, CMG, CVO (b.1931)
Diplomat. HM Customs and Excise, 1953-62; 2nd, later 1st Secretary (Economic), Bangkok, 1962-5; FO, 1965-8; 1st
Secretary and Head of Chancery, Athens, 1968-72; Commercial Counsellor, Jakarta, 1972-5; Head of Hong Kong and
Indian Ocean Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1975-6; Director-General, British Information Services,
and Deputy Consul General (Information), New York, 1976-8; Counsellor, Nicosia, 1978-81; Ambassador to Senegal,
1982-5, and concurrently (non-resident) to Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Cape Verde, 1982-5;
Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1988-91.
Interviewed 1998.
DOHP 31 1 file
See also O'Keeffe's lecture And the Walls Came Tumbling Down on Czechoslovakia's Velvet
Revolution, given at St Antony's College, Oxford, in November 1996.
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PALLISER, Sir Michael, GCMG, PC (1922-2012)
Diplomat. Entered HM Diplomatic Service, 1947; South East Asia Department, Foreign Office, 1947-49; Athens, 1949-51;
Second Secretary, 1950; Foreign Office: German Finance Department, 1951-52; Central Department, 1952-54; Private
Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary, 1954-56; First Secretary, 1955; Paris, 1956-60; Head of Chancery, Dakar,
1960-62 (Chargé d'Affaires in 1960, 1961 and 1962); Counsellor, and seconded to Imperial Defence College, 1963;
Head of Planning Staff, Foreign Office, 1964; a Private Secretary to Prime Minister, 1966; Minister, Paris, 1969;
Ambassador and Head of UK Delegation to European Communities, Brussels, 1971; Ambassador and UK Permanent
Representative to European Communities, 1973-75; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FCO and Head of Diplomatic
Service, 1975-82.
Interviewed 1999.
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PARSONS, Sir Anthony Derrick, GCMG, LVO, MC (1922-1996)
Diplomat. First Secretary, Turkey, 1955-9, Jordan, 1959-60, Egypt, 1960, Sudan, 1964-5; Political Agent, Bahrain,
1965-9; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, UK Mission to UN, 1969-71; Ambassador to Iran, 1974-9; UK Permanent
Representative to UN, 1979-82; Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime Minister, 1982-3.
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PARSONS, Sir Richard, KCMG (b 1928)
Diplomat. Foreign Office, 1951-53; 3rd Secretary, Washington, 1953-56; 2nd Secretary, Vientiane, 1956-58; FO,
1958-60; 1st Secretary, Buenos Aires, 1960-63; FO, 1963-65; 1st Secretary, Ankara, 1965-67; FO, 1967-69; Counsellor,
Lagos, 1969-72; Head of Personnel Operations Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1972-76; Ambassador to
Hungary, 1976-79; Ambassador to Spain, 1980-84; Ambassador to Sweden, 1984-87.
Interviewed 2005.
DOHP 101 1 file
PELLEW, Mark Edward, CVO (b.1942)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1965; Foreign Office, 1965-67; Third Secretary, Singapore, 1967-69; Second
Secretary, Saigon, 1969-70; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970-76; First Secretary, Rome, 1976-80; Assistant
Head of Personnel Operations Department, FCO, 1981-83; Counsellor: Washington, 1983-89; on secondment to Hambros
Bank, 1989-91; Head of North America Department, FCO, 1991-96; Ambassador to the Holy See, 1998-2002.
Interviewed 2005.
DOHP 85 1 file
PENFOLD, Peter Alfred, CMG OBE (b.1944)
Diplomat. Joined Foreign Service (American Division and United Nations Division), 1963; Bonn, 1965-68; Registry
Officer, Kaduna, 1968-70; Latin American Floater, 1970-72; Passport Officer, Canberra, 1972; Desk Officer, Pacific
and Dependent Territories, FCO, 1972-75; Second Secretary: Addis Ababa, 1975-78; Port of Spain, 1978-81; First
Secretary, FCO, 1981-84; Deputy High Commissioner and Head of Chancery, Kampala, 1984-87; First Secretary and
Deputy Head of West Indian and Atlantic Department, FCO, 1987-91; Governor, British Virgin Islands, 1991-95;
Special Drugs Adviser to the Caribbean, FCO, 1995-96; High Commissioner, Freetown, 1996-2000; Senior consultant
and conflict adviser, DFID [Department for International Development], 2001-2.
Interviewed 2003.
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PHILLIPS, Sir Hayden, GCB (b.1943)
Home Office: Assistant Principal, 1967; Economic Adviser, 1970-72; Principal, 1972-74; Assistant Secretary, and
Principal Private Secretary to Home Secretary (Roy Jenkins), 1974-76; Deputy Chef de Cabinet to President of the
European Commission (Roy Jenkins), 1977-79; Assistant Secretary, Home Office, 1979-81, Assistant Under-Secretary
of State, 1981-86; Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office (MPO, subsequently Office of the Minister for the Civil
Service), 1986-88; Deputy Secretary, Treasury, 1988-92; Permanent Secretary: Department for National Heritage,
later Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1992-98; Lord Chancellor's Department, 1998-2003; Department
for Constitutional Affairs, 2003-04; Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1998-2004.
Interviewed 2011.
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PHILLIPS, Sir Horace, KCMG (1917-2004)
Diplomat. Vice Consul, Shiraz and Bushire, Iran, 1947-9; Oriental Secretary, Afghanistan, 1949-50; Head of
Chancery, Saudi Arabia, 1953-6; Protectorate Secretary, Aden, 1956-60; Counsellor, Iran, 1960-4; Deputy Political
Resident, Persian Gulf, 1964; Ambassador to Indonesia, 1966-73; Ambassador to Turkey, 1973-7.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 20 1 file
POWELL, Lord Powell of Bayswater, KCMG (b.1941)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1963; Third Secretary, FO, 1963-65 (Desk officer, Muscat and Oman); Second
Secretary, Helsinki, 1965-67; FCO, 1968-71; First Secretary and Private Secretary to HM Ambassador, Washington
(Lord Cromer), 1971-74; First Secretary, Bonn, 1974-77; FCO, 1977-80 (Counsellor, 1979; Special Counsellor for
Rhodesia negotiations, 1979-80); Counsellor, UK Permanent Representation to European Communities, 1980-84; Private
Secretary to Prime Minister, 1983-91.
Interviewed 2000.
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PRENDERGAST, Sir (Walter) Kieran, KCVO, CMG (b.1942)
Diplomat. Turkish language student Istanbul, 1964; Ankara, 1965; Foreign Office (later Foreign and Commonwealth
Office), 1967; 2nd Secretary Nicosia, 1969; 1st Secretary FCO, 1972; The Hague, 1973; Assistant Private Secretary
to Foreign Secretary (Anthony Crosland, Dr David Owen), 1976; UK Mission to UN, New York, 1979 (detached for
duty Jan-Mar 1980 at Government House, Salisbury); Counsellor, Tel Aviv, 1982; Head of Southern African
Department, FCO, 1986-89; High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, 1989-92; High Commissioner to Kenya, 1992-95;
Ambassador to Turkey, 1995-97; Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations, New York, 1997-2005.
Interviewed 2012.
DOHP 137 1 file
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RAMSBOTHAM, Hon Sir Peter, GCMG (1919-2010)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign Service, October 1948; Political Division of Allied Control Commission, Berlin, November
1948; transferred to Foreign Office, 1950; 1st Secretary, 1950; Head of Chancery, UK Delegation, New York, 1953;
Foreign Office, 1957; Counsellor, 1961, Head of Western Organisations and Planning Dept; Head of Chancery, British
Embassy, Paris, 1963-67; Foreign Office, 1967-69 (Sabbatical year, Institute of Strategic Studies, 1968); High
Commissioner, Nicosia, 1969-71; Ambassador to Iran, 1971-74; Ambassador to the United States, 1974-77; Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda, 1977-80.
Interviewed 2001.
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RENWICK, Rt Hon Lord (Robin), KCMG (b. 1937)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign Service, 1963; Dakar, 1963-64; FO, 1964-66; New Delhi, 1966-69; Private Secretary to
Minister of State, FCO, 1970-72; First Secretary, Paris, 1972-76; Counsellor, Cabinet Office, 1976-78; Rhodesia
Department, FCO, 1978-80; Political Adviser to Governor of Rhodesia, 1980; Visiting Fellow, Center for International
Affairs, Harvard, 1980-81; Head of Chancery, Washington, 1981-84; Assistant Under Secretary of State, FCO, 1984-87;
Ambassador to South Africa, 1987-91; Ambassador to Washington, 1991-95.
Interviewed 1998.
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RHODES, Sir Peregrine Alexander, KCMG (1925-2005)
Diplomat. Served with Coldstream Guards, 1944-47. Joined Foreign Office, 1950; 2nd Secretary, Rangoon, 1953-56;
Private Secretary to Minister of State, 1956-59; 1st Secretary, Vienna, 1959-62; 1st Secretary, Helsinki, 1962-65;
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1965-68, Counsellor 1967; Institute for Study of International Organisation,
Sussex University, 1968-69; Counsellor, Rome, 1970-73; Chargé d'Affaires, East Berlin, 1973-75; on secondment
as Under Secretary, Cabinet Office (Chief of Assessments Staff), 1975-78; High Commissioner, Cyprus, 1979-82;
Ambassador to Greece, 1982-85.
Interviewed 2003.
DOHP 79 1 file
ROBERTS, Sir Frank Kenyon, GCMG GCVO (1907-98)
Diplomat. British Minister, Moscow, 1945-7; Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
1947-9; Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954-7, USSR, 1960-2 and Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-8.
Interviewed 1996
DOHP 14 1 file
ROBERTS, Sir Ivor, KCMG (b.1946)
Diplomat. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1968; Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1969; Third, later Second
Secretary, Paris, 1970-73; Second, later First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1973-78; First Secretary,
Canberra, 1978-82; Deputy Head of News Department, FCO, 1982-86; Head, Security Co-ordination Department, FCO,
1986-88; Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, Madrid, 1989-93; Chargé d'Affaires, Belgrade, 1994-96;
Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1996-97; Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, Oxford, 1997-98; Ambassador to
Ireland, 1999-2003; Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, 2003-2006.
Interviewed 2007
DOHP 108 1 file
ROSE, Sir Clive Martin, GCMG (b.1921)
Diplomat. Rifle Brigade, 1941-46 (Major; despatches): served in Europe, 1944-45; India, 1945; Iraq, 1945-46.
CRO, 1948; Office of Deputy High Commissioner, Madras, 1948-49; Foreign Office, 1950-53; UK High Commission,
Germany, 1953-54; British Embassy, Bonn, 1955; FO, 1956-59; 1st Secretary and HM Consul, Montevideo, 1959-62; FO,
1962-65; Commercial Counsellor, Paris, 1965-67; Imperial Defence College, 1968; Counsellor, British Embassy,
Washington, 1969-71; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1971-73; Head, British Delegation to Negotiations
on Mutual Reduction of Forces and Armaments and Associated Measures in Central Europe, Vienna, 1973-76; Deputy
Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1976-79; UK Permanent Representative on North Atlantic Council, 1979-82.
Interviewed 2003.
DOHP 74 1 file
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SANKEY, John Anthony, CMG (b 1930)
National Service in 1st (Singapore) Regiment, RA (2nd Lieutenant), 1952. Entered Colonial Office, 1953-61;
UK Mission to United Nations, 1961-64; Foreign Office, 1964-68; Guyana, 1968-71; Singapore, 1971-73; NATO Defence
College, Rome, 1973; Malta, 1973-75; The Hague, 1975-79 (Governor, British School in the Netherlands); Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, Head of Central African Department, 1979-82; High Commissioner, Tanzania, 1982-85; UK
Permanent Representative to UN Office, Geneva, 1985-90.
Interviewed 2010.
DOHP 134 1 file
SHIERS, Mr Leslie Gordon (c.1920-2007)
RNVR Surgeon Lieutenant in the light cruiser Dauntless at the invasion of Madagascar in the Spring of l942.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 21 1 file
SINDALL, Adrian John, CMG (b 1937)
Diplomat. Foreign Office 1956-58; Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1958-60; Third Secretary (Commercial),
Baghdad, 1960-62; Second Secretary, British Embassy, Rabat, 1962-67; First Secretary: Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, 1967-70; Beirut, 1970-72; First Secretary and Head of Chancery, British Embassy, Lima, 1972-76; FCO,
1976-79; Counsellor, Head of Chancery and Consul-General, Amman, 1979-82; Head of S America Department, FCO,
1982-85; Consul-General, Sydney, 1985-88; Middle East Marketing Director, Defence Export Services Organisation,
Ministry of Defence, on secondment, 1988-91; High Commissioner, Brunei, 1991-94; Ambassador to Syria, 1994-96.
Interviewed 2008.
DOHP 120 1 file
SMEDLEY, Sir Harold, KCMG MBE (1920-2004)
Diplomat. First Secretary, New Zealand, 1948-51, Rhodesia, 1951-4; Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of
State for Commonwealth Relations, 1954-7; Counsellor, Calcutta, 1957, Delhi, 1958; High Commissioner, Ghana,
1964-5 and 1966-7; Ambassador to Laos, 1968-70; High Commissioner, Sri Lanka, 1973-6, New Zealand, 1976-80.
Interviewed 1997.
DOHP 23 1 file
SNOXELL, David Raymond (b 1944)
Diplomat. Entry to FCO (UN Department), 1969; FCO, Information Administration Department, 1971; Islamabad, 1973;
UK Mission to Geneva, 1976; FCO, Republic of Ireland Department, 1981; FCO, Economic Relations Department, 1983;
Director, British Information Services, New York, 1986; Deputy Head, Drugs and International Crime Department, 1991;
Deputy Head of Southern Africa Department, FCO, 1994; Ambassador to Senegal (and concurrently to Mali, Guinea,
Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde), 1997; High Commissioner, Mauritius, 2000; retired 2004.
Interviewed 2007.
DOHP 111 1 file
STUART, Andrew Christopher, CMG (b.1928)
Diplomat. Royal Navy, 1947-49. Colonial Administrative Service, Uganda, 1953; retired from HMOCS as Judicial Adviser,
1965. Called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1965. Entered HM Diplomatic Service, 1965; 1st Secretary and Head of Chancery,
Helsinki, 1968; Assistant, South Asian Department, FCO, 1971; Head of Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, FCO,
1972-75; Counsellor, Jakarta, 1975-78; British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides, 1978-80; Ambassador to Finland,
1980-83. Principal, United World College of the Atlantic, 1983-90; Consultant to Voluntary Service Overseas, 1990-96.
Interviewed 2002.
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SUMMERHAYES, David Michael, CMG (b.1922)
Diplomat. Served War of 1939-45 in Royal Artillery (Captain), North Africa and Italy. 3rd Secretary, Foreign
Office, 1948; Baghdad, 1949; Brussels, 1950-53; 2nd Secretary, FO, 1953-56; 1st Secretary (Commercial), The Hague,
1956-59; 1st Secretary and Consul, Reykjavik, 1959-61; FO, 1961-65; Consul-General and Counsellor, Buenos Aires,
1965-70; Head of Arms Control and Disarmament Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970-74; Minister,
Pretoria/Cape Town, 1974-78; Ambassador and Leader, UK Delegation to Committee on Disarmament, Geneva, 1979-82;
Disarmament Adviser, FCO, 1983-92.
Interviewed 2003.
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SUTHERLAND, Dame Veronica Evelyn, DBE CMG (b.1939)
Diplomat. Joined Diplomatic Service, 1965; 2nd, later 1st Secretary, Copenhagen, 1967-70; Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, 1970-5; 1st Secretary, New Delhi, 1975-8; FCO, 1978-80; Counsellor, 1981; Permanent UK Delegate to UNESCO,
1981-4; Counsellor, FCO, 1984-7; Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire, 1987-90; Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Personnel),
FCO, 1990-5; Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, 1995-9.
Interviewed 2005.
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SYNNOTT, Sir Hilary, KCMG (1945-2011)
Diplomat. RN 1962-73 (HM Submarines, 1968-73). Joined Diplomatic Service, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1973;
UK Delegation to OECD, Paris, 1975; Bonn, 1978; Southern European Department, FCO, 1981; Head of Chancery, Amman,
1985; Head of Western European Department, FCO, 1989; Head of Security Co-ordination Department, FCO, 1991;
Minister and Deputy High Commissioner, New Delhi, 1993-96; Director (S and SE Asia), FCO, 1996-98; Visiting
Fellow, Institute of Developing Studies, University of Sussex, and International Institute of Strategic Studies,
1999-2000; High Commissioner to Pakistan, 2000-03; Coalition Provisional Administrator, Southern Iraq, 2003-04;
retired 2004.
Interviewed 2008.
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TALLBOYS, Mr Richard Gilbert, CMG OBE (b.1931)
HM Diplomatic Service, 1968-88: First Secretary i/c Brasilia, 1969; Head of Chancery, Phnom Penh, 1972
(Chargé d'Affaires 1972, 1973); FO, 1973; Counsellor Commercial, Seoul, 1976-80 (Chargé d'Affaires
1977, 1978, 1979); Consul-General, Houston, 1980-85; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1985-87.
Memoir.
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THOMAS, Sir Derek Morison David, KCMG (b.1929)
Diplomat. Entered Foreign Service, 1953; Midshipman 1953, Sub-Lieutenant 1955, RNVR; FO, 1955; 3rd, later 2nd,
Secretary, Moscow, 1956-59; 2nd Secretary, Manila, 1959-61; UK Delegation to Brussels Conference, 1961-62; 1st
Secretary, FO, 1962; Sofia, 1964-67; Ottawa, 1967-69; seconded to Treasury, 1969-70; Financial Counsellor, Paris,
1971-75; Head of North American Department, FCO, 1975-76; Assistant Under Secretary of State, FCO, 1976-79;
Minister Commercial and later Minister, Washington, 1979-84; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Europe and
Political Director, FCO, 1984-87; Ambassador to Italy, 1987-89.
Interviewed 2002.
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Please note that the full version of this interview is closed, and will be reviewed by the FCO in 2014. An
edited version is open to readers.
TICKELL, Sir Crispin, GCMG KCVO (b. 1930)
Diplomat. Entered HM Diplomatic Service, 1954. Served at: Foreign Office, 1954-55; The Hague, 1955-58; Mexico,
1958-61; FO (Planning Staff), 1961-64; Paris, 1964-70; Private Secretary to successive Ministers responsible for
British entry into the European Community, 1970-72; FCO, 1972-75; Chef de Cabinet to President of European Community,
1977-81; Ambassador to Mexico, 1981-83; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1983-84; Permanent Secretary, ODA,
1984-87; British Permanent Representative to UN, 1987-90.
Interviewed 1999.
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TONKIN, Derek, CMG (b.1929)
Diplomat. HM Forces, 1948-49; FO, 1952; Warsaw, 1955; Bangkok, 1957; Phnom Penh, 1961; FO, 1963; Warsaw, 1966;
Wellington, 1968; FCO, 1972; East Berlin, 1976; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1980-82; Minister, Pretoria, 1983-86;
Ambassador to Thailand, and concurrently to Laos, 1986-89.
Interviewed 2000.
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TUCKER, Herbert Harold, OBE (1925-1996)
Diplomat. Economic Information Unit, Treasury, 1948-49; Foreign Office, Information Research Department, 1951-74;
Counsellor (Information), Australia, 1974-9; Consul-General, Vancouver, 1979-83; Disarmament and Arms Control
Information Co-ordinator, 1983-4.
Interviewed 1996.
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UNWIN, Peter William, CMG (b.1932)
Diplomat. Army, 1954-56; Foreign Office, 1956-58; British Legation, Budapest, 1958-61; British Embassy, Tokyo,
1961-63; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1963-67; British Information Services, New York, 1967-70; FCO, 1970-72;
Bank of England, 1973; British Embassy, Bonn, 1973-76; Head of Personnel Policy Department, FCO, 1976-79; Fellow,
Center for International Affairs, Harvard, 1979-80; Minister (Economic), Bonn, 1980-83; Ambassador to: Hungary,
1983-86; Denmark, 1986-88; a Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth, 1989-93.
Interviewed 2005.
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WADE-GERY, Sir Robert Lucian, KCMG (b.1929)
Diplomat. Joined HM Foreign (now Diplomatic) Service, 1951; FO (Economic Relations Department), 1951-54; Bonn,
1954-57; FO (Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary, later Southern Department), 1957-60; Tel Aviv, 1961-64;
FO (Planning Staff), 1964-67; Saigon, 1967-68; Cabinet Office (Secretary to Duncan Committee), 1968-69; Counsellor
1969; on loan to Bank of England, 1969; Head of Financial Policy and Aid Department, FCO, 1969-70; Under-Secretary,
Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office, 1971-73; Minister, Madrid, 1973-77; Minister, Moscow, 1977-79; Deputy
Secretary of the Cabinet, 1979-82; High Commissioner to India, 1982-87.
Interviewed 2000.
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WALKER, Sir Harold Berners, KCMG (b.1932)
Diplomat. Assistant Political Agent, Dubai, 1958-60; Principal Instructor, Middle East Centre for Arab Studies,
1963-4; First Secretary, Egypt, 1964-6; Head of Chancery and Consul, Damascus, Syria, 1966-7; First Secretary
(Commercial), Washington, 1970-3; Counsellor, Jedda, 1973-5; Deputy Head, Personnel Operations Department, 1975;
Head of Personnel Operations Department, 1976; Ambassador, Bahrain, 1979-81, Abu Dhabi, 1981-6, Ethiopia, 1986-90,
Iraq, 1990-1.
Interviewed 1996.
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WALL, Sir (John) Stephen, GCMG, LVO (b 1947)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968; Addis Ababa, 1969-72; Private Secretary to HM Ambassador, Paris, 1972-74;
First Secretary, FCO, 1974-76; Press Officer, No 10 Downing Street, 1976-77; Assistant Private Secretary to
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1977-79; First Secretary, Washington, 1979-83; Assistant
Head, later Head, European Community Department, FCO, 1983-88; Private Secretary: to Foreign and Commonwealth
Secretary, 1988-90; to the Prime Minister (John Major), 1991-93; Ambassador to Portugal, 1993-95; Ambassador and
UK Permanent Representative to EU, Brussels, 1995-2000; Head of European Secretariat, Cabinet Office, and EU
Adviser to the Prime Minister (Tony Blair), 2000-04.
Interviewed 2010 and 2012, by Thomas Raineau (Université de Paris-Sorbonne).
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WESTON, Sir Philip John, KCMG (b.1938)
Diplomat. Served with Royal Marines, 1956-58. Entered Diplomatic Service, 1962; FO, 1962-63; Treasury Centre for
Administrative Studies, 1964; Chinese Language student, Hong Kong, 1964-66; Peking, 1967-68; Foreign Office, 1969-71;
Office of UK Permanent Representative to EEC, 1972-74; Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary (James
Callaghan, Anthony Crosland), 1974-76; Counsellor, Head of EEC Presidency Secretariat, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, 1976-77; Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1977-78; Counsellor, Washington, 1978-81; Head
Defence Department, FCO, 1981-84; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1984-85; Minister, Paris, 1985-88;
Deputy Secretary to Cabinet, Cabinet Office, 1988-89 (on secondment); Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Defence),
FCO, 1989-90; Political Director, FCO, 1990-91; Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to North Atlantic Council
(NATO), 1991-95, to Permanent Council of WEU, 1992-95; British Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
(1995-98).
Interviewed 2001.
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WILLSON, John Michael, CMG (b.1931)
Diplomat. Colonial Service, Northern Rhodesia, 1955-64; Ministry of Overseas Development, 1965-70; seconded to
British High Commission, Malta, as First Secretary (Economic), 1967-70; joined Diplomatic Service, 1970; British
Consulate-General, Johannesburg, 1972-75; Foreign and Commonwealth Office (West Indian and North American
Departments), 1975-8; Special Counsellor for African Affairs, 1978; Secretary-General, Rhodesian Independence
Conference, 1979; on staff of Governor of Rhodesia, 1979-80; Counsellor, Bucharest, 1980-82; Ambassador to Ivory
Coast, Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) and Niger, 1983-87; High Commissioner in Zambia, 1988-90.
Interviewed 2005.
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WILSON, Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, GCMG (b.1935)
Diplomat. National Service, The Black Watch, 1953-55; entered Foreign Service, 1958; Third Secretary, Vientiane,
1959-60; Language Student, Hong Kong, 1960-62; Second, later First Secretary, Peking, 1963-65; Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, 1965-68; resigned, 1968; Editor, China Quarterly, 1968-74; Visiting Scholar, Columbia
University, New York, 1972; rejoined Diplomatic Service, 1974; Cabinet Office, 1974-77; Political Adviser,
Hong Kong, 1977-81; Head, South European Department, FCO, 1981-84; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO,
1984-87; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong, 1987-92.
Interviewed 2003.
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WOOD, Sir Andrew Marley, GCMG (b.1940)
Diplomat. Foreign Office, 1961; Moscow, 1964; Washington, 1967; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970; seconded
to Cabinet Office, 1971; First Secretary, FCO, 1973; First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Belgrade, 1976;
Counsellor, 1978; Head of Chancery, Moscow, 1979; Head of West European Department, 1982, Head of Personnel
Operations Department, 1983, FCO; Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1985-89; Minister, Washington, 1989-92; Chief Clerk,
FCO, 1992-95; Ambassador to the Russian Federation and to Moldova, 1995-2000.
Interviewed 2003.
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WRIGHT, Sir Denis, GCMG (1911-2005)
Diplomat. Employed from outbreak of war as Vice-Consul on economic warfare work at HM Consulate at Constantza
(Romania), 1939-41. Vice-Consul-in-charge of HM Consulate at Trebizond (Turkey), 1941-43; Acting-Consul-in-charge
of HM Consulate, Mersin (Turkey), 1943-45; First Secretary (Commercial) to HM Embassy, Belgrade, 1946-48;
Superintending Trade Consul at Chicago for Middle-Western Region of USA, 1949-51; Head of Economic Relations
Department in the Foreign Office, 1951-53; appointed Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran, on resumption of diplomatic
relations with Persia, December 1953; Counsellor, HM Embassy, Tehran, 1954-55; Assistant Under-Secretary, FO,
1955-59; Ambassador to Ethiopia, 1959-62; Assistant Under-Secretary, FO, 1962; Ambassador to Iran, 1963-71.
Interviewed 2000.
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WRIGHT, Sir (John) Oliver, GCMG GCVO DSC (b.1921)
Diplomat. Royal Navy 1941-5; Entered FO 1945; Vice-Consul, New York, 1946; 3rd Secretary, Bucharest, 1948; 2nd
Secretary, Singapore, 1950; FO 1952 (Western and Southern Departments); First Secretary, Berlin, 1954-7, South
Africa, 1957-9; Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1964-6; Ambassador to Denmark, 1966-9; Seconded to
Government of Northern Ireland, 1969-70; Chief Clerk, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970-2; Ambassador to West
Germany, 1975-81, to United States, 1982-6.
Interviewed 1996.
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WRIGHT, Patrick Richard Henry, Lord Wright of Richmond, GCMG (b.1931)
Diplomat. Served Royal Artillery, 1950-51; joined Diplomatic Service, 1955; Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies,
1956-57; Third Secretary, British Embassy, Beirut, 1958-60; Private Secretary to Ambassador and later First
Secretary, British Embassy, Washington, 1960-65; Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary, FO, 1965-67;
First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Cairo, 1967-70; Deputy Political Resident, Bahrain, 1971-72; Head of Middle
East Dept, FCO, 1972-74; Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to Prime Minister, 1974-77; Ambassador to:
Luxembourg, 1977-79; Syria, 1979-81; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1982-84; Ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
1984-86; Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of Diplomatic Service, 1986-91. Member, Security Commission,
1993-2002.
Interviewed 2000.
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YOUNG, Elisabeth Ann (Mrs Thomas Nesbitt Young), MBE (b.c. 1945)
Married Thomas Young in 1971, and accompanied him to the following postings: Ankara, 1969-71; Madrid, 1972-76;
Head of Chancery, Ankara, 1979-80; Deputy Director of Trade Development, New York, 1981; First Secretary,
Washington, 1981-84; Assistant Head, Nuclear Energy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1984-86;
Deputy High Commissioner, Accra, 1987-90; Director of Trade Promotion, British High Commission, Canberra,
1990-93; Ambassador to Azerbaijan, 1993-97; High Commissioner to Zambia, 1998-2002.
Interviewed 2011.
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