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A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS

CONTENTS:

Preface: pages 3-4

Introduction: pages 5-7

Select Bibliography: page 8

Notes: Sections A and B: pages 9-10

Section A: Alphabetical Directory of Diplomats, 1789-2005: pages 11-560

Section B: Diplomatic Missions Overseas, 1789-: pages 551-897

I: Commonwealth Countries: pages 551-615

II: Foreign Countries: pages 616-880

III: International Organizations: pages 883-899

Notes: Sections C and D: page 1000

Section C: Foreign Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1841-: pages 1001-1013

Section D: Dominions Office/Commonwealth Relations Office/

Commonwealth Office, 1925-1968: pages 1014-1031

Notes: Sections E and F: page 1032

Section E: Alphabetical Directory of Colonial Officials, 1850-: page 1033-1152

Section F: Colonial Governors and Senior Officials, 1850-: pages 1153-1222


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Section G: Colonial Office, 1862-1966: pages 1223-1247

Section H: Alphabetical Directory of Indian Governors and India Office

Officials, 1850-1947: pages 1248-1276

Section I: Indian Governors and Lieutenant-Governors, 1850-1947: pages 1277-1285

Section J: India Office, 1858-1947: pages 1286-1293


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PREFACE

The material included in this Directory is the accumulation of decades of research. I recall

watching the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate and being entranced by the almost

Ruritarian romanticism (as I saw it as an impressionable nine-year old) of the name of the

British Minister in Montevideo-Sir Eugen Millington-Drake. My further interest in the

Diplomatic Service originated from a Christmas present in 1959 of my first copy of

Whitakers Almanack. I had been fascinated for some time by the names of, for example,

Roman, Byzantine and Holy Roman Emperors and had been a compulsive list-maker from

a very early age. As a teenager I became increasingly fascinated by the identities of members

the Diplomatic Service, senior officers in the Armed Forces and other public servants and in

their career progression.

Over the succeeding decades, during my spare time from teaching History in Scottish

secondary schools, I tried to compile and to update paper copies of lists of these individuals.

With the coming of the internet and the decision to put these lists online the project has grown

and developed. Not only did developments in technology afford the opportunity to more

systematically revise and improve the lists it suggested the possibility that others interested in

these matters would be able to access the material.

There is no shortage of sources for information on British Diplomatic representation overseas

at the level of Heads of Mission. This project however goes beyond that level. It attempts to

provide information on a wider range of positions within the Diplomatic Service, the Colonial

Service and the India Office. As far as I am aware such an exercise has not been attempted before.

In recent months the welcome and invaluable co-operation and support of the Foreign and

Commonwealth Office in making copies of the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Lists

available to me has ensured that the accuracy of the information provided has been much

improved and has made it possible for me to extend the chronological coverage considerably.

The interest shown in this project by the Historians section of the Foreign and Commonwealth

Office and by members of the Foreign and Commonwealth Association has been most gratifying.

The support and encouragement I have received from the historians and from a number of ex-

diplomats has enabled me to make the material much more complete, more comprehensive and

more accurate than would otherwise have been the case. In particular I would like to thank Mark

Bertram, a former Head of the Overseas Estate Department at the FCO, without whose interest,

help in facilitating access to the current FCO and encouragement the project would never have

reached its current state.


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This Directory cannot be fully comprehensive. A number of past and present organizations,

departments and posts have been omitted. To those who may be aggrieved at particular

omissions I can only offer my apologies.

It is hoped however that the project will provide a reference tool for those engaged in research or

study of British Diplomatic and Colonial History and will be of interest to those who have served

or serve in the Diplomatic Service.

It is obvious that I am an outsider attempting to chronicle the careers of senior diplomats and

colonial officials. I am immensely proud that others are now of the opinion that this project is

worthy of the official endorsement of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and worth preserving

as a permanent record. It will, one day, become the responsibility of others to continue to update.

Colin A. Mackie,

October 2013


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INTRODUCTION

SCOPE AND STRUCTURE

This Directory includes senior British diplomats, and other British civil servants working in a

similar capacity, who held posts overseas and in London.

It is confined to individuals who worked at Counsellor/Assistant Secretary grades and above.

The main part of the Directory(Sections A-D) relates to the Diplomatic Service since 1789 and

to the Foreign Office since 1841. The starting point of the year 1789 in both Sections A and B

was chosen because of the use made of the volume published by the Royal Historical Society:

British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852(Bindoff, Malcolm Smith and Webster, 1934).

It includes those who served in the succession of Offices which were merged with the Foreign

Office in the later part of the twentieth century(the Dominions Office 1925-47, the

Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-66 and the Commonwealth Office 1966-1968) to become

the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) in 1968.

Section A is an Alphabetical List of British Diplomats and their appointments from 1789 until

the present. It includes all those individuals who held posts listed in Sections B, C and D but

the appointments given for each individual are by necessity only those contained in the lists in

subsequent sections.

Section B is an alphabetical list of countries in which diplomatic missions and subsidiary posts

have been established, with successive holders of senior posts in each.

Section C records the changing structure in London of the Foreign Office between 1841 and

1968 and of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since then, and lists the successive holders

of the titles described. (This Directory, as far as I am aware, is the first to attempt such a

summary.)

Section D is comparable to Section C, but deals solely with the Dominions Office, Commonwealth

Relations Office and Commonwealth Office from their inception until their absorption by a

successor Department.

The remainder of the Directory(Sections E-J) relate to the Colonial Office and the India Office.

Section E is an alphabetical list of Colonial officials from 1850 until the date of a colonys

independence and of Colonial Office senior officials, with the posts held by each.


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Section F is an alphabetical list of Colonies with lists of Governors and the Colonial or Chief

Secretaries in each. Section G covers the structure of the Colonial Office since 1854

and lists its senior officials until its merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966.

Sections H, I and J relate to the India Office between 1858 and 1947 and provide coverage of

both Indian Governors and the senior staff of the India Office in London.

SOURCES

A Select Bibliography is provided on page 8. Initially the principal source used was the annual

Foreign Office List(from 1965 the Diplomatic Service List). However publication of this

invaluable source ceased in 2006. In addition, latterly the annual editions only provided complete

lists of the names of Ambassadors for the previous twenty years or so.

My access to these Lists (and to those of the Colonial Office, India Office and Commonwealth

Relations Office-as the project expanded) was through very lengthy periods over many years

spent working in the Reference Room of the Edinburgh Public Library. That library however

does not hold copies of these lists from the earlier part of my chosen period. In the later stages of

the exercise I had the advantage of being able to work at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Library and at the National Archives at Kew and to make use of the Lists unavailable in

Edinburgh.

DIPLOMATS AND HOME CIVIL SERVANTS

While the great majority of officials in this Directory would nowadays be called diplomats, thus

justifying the title of this Directory, many of them were not defined as diplomats at the time of

their service. The definition of a diplomat has widened significantly since the early twentieth

century. Until 1919 a British diplomat was a member of the Diplomatic Service, which staffed

missions overseas. It had been uncommon for such a diplomat to be employed within the Foreign

Office in London although such employment had been increasing prior to the end of the First

World War. When the Diplomatic Service and the Foreign Office were officially merged in 1919

all of the staff became members of the new Diplomatic Service. Foreign Office staff, in other

words, became diplomats. Similarly, the Consular Service had been separate until it too was

merged with the Diplomatic Service at the end of the Second World War. All former

Commonwealth Relations Office and Colonial Office staff who joined the Foreign Office in the

mid-1960s to create the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were transferred from the Home

Civil Service to the Diplomatic Service, thereby becoming diplomats.


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GENERAL NOTES

There are a few gaps in the lists of postholders overseas and in the succession of departments at

home. Chief among the gaps are Colonial Office departments and postholders during the Second

World War. The Colonial Office List was not published between 1941 and 1945 or in 1947.

The cessation of publication of the Diplomatic Service List in 2006 has made it exceptionally

difficult to identify a number of postholders beyond Heads of Missions overseas.

There will always be a certain amount of uncertainty regarding dates. It has not been possible

for me to emulate the depth of research into each post carried out by Bindoff, Malcolm Smith

and Webster or to consult the original documents and records available to them. The most

common area of difficulty in relation to dates is that the individuals appointment to a

particular post and the actual assumption of duties may have occurred in successive calendar

years. Where possible I have used the dates given in the Foreign Office Lists but for other

appointments, particularly in the 19th century, where use has been made of, for example, the

London Gazette, the date of commencement is clearly that when the appointment was

announced in London. There can also be discrepancies between the information provided, for

example, in an official publication and the information included in an individuals entry in

Whos Who. Given that the latter represents the memory of an individual, which may

demonstrably be fallible, such discrepancies have been resolved in favour of official publications

where possible.

I have attempted to identify Acting appointments and to exclude those from the listings.

Throughout the entire project no attempt has been made to include those honours and

decorations held by an individual at the time of his or her occupation of a specific post.

For each person the final honours awarded are provided. Honours or decorations awarded

to diplomats by foreign governments or by Commonwealth countries are not included

The research involved in compiling these lists has been of exceptional difficulty and there will

without any doubt be some mistakes and inaccuracies, errors of transcription, typographical

errors, errors transliterated from the sources themselves. I hope that users will not be slow to

draw these to my attention. I can be contacted at [email protected]

The Directory will be updated at regular intervals and the FCO will arrange for the published

version in their ISSUU series to be similarly updated.


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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

The Foreign Office List, H.M. Stationery Office, London (annual editions from 1852 until

1965)

The Diplomatic Service List, H.M. Stationery Office, London (annual editions from 1966 until

2006)

The Colonial Office List, H.M. Stationery Office, London(annual editions from 1862 until

1966)(The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List from 1925 until 1952)

The Commonwealth Relations Office List, H.M. Stationery Office, London(annual editions

from 1951 until 1965)

The India Office List(earlier The India List), H.M. Stationery Office, London(annual

editions until 1947)

The London Gazette, H.M. Stationery Office

Bindoff, S.T., Malcolm Smith, E.F. and Webster, C.K., British Diplomatic Representatives

1789-1852, Royal Historical Society. London, 1934

Blakely, Brian L., The Colonial Office 1868-1892, Duke University Press, Durham N.C., 1972

Fiddes, Sir George V., The Dominions and Colonial Offices, Putnams, London, 1926

Gore-Booth, Paul (Lord), With Great Truth and Respect, Constable, London, 1974

Greenhill, Denis (Lord), More by Accident, Wilton 65, 1992

Hall, Henry L., The Colonial Office, Longmans, London, 1937

Jeffries, Sir Charles, The Colonial Office, Allen & Unwin, London, 1956

Jones, Ray, The Nineteenth-Century Foreign Office: An Administrative History,

LSE/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1971

Kirk-Greene, Anthony H.M., A Biographical Dictionary of the British Colonial Governor,

Vol. I: Africa, The Harvester Press, Brighton, 1980

Kirk-Greene, Anthony H.M., On Crown Service: A History of HM Colonial and Overseas

Civil Services, 1837-1997, I.B. Tauris, London, 1999

Kubicek, Robert V., The Administration of Imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial

Office, Duke University Press, Durham N.C., 1969

Maisel, Ephraim, The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy 1919-1926, Sussex Academic Press,

1994

Neilson, Keith and Otte, T.G., The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs,

1854-1946, Routledge, London, 2009

Steiner, Zara, The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy 1898-1914, Cambridge University

Press, 1969

Strang, Lord, The Foreign Office, Allen & Unwin, London, 1955

Tilley, Sir John and Gaselee, Sir Stephen, The Foreign Office, Putnams, London, 1933

Whitakers Almanack, A & C Black, London (annual editions)

Whos Who, A & C Black, London (annual editions)


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NOTES: SECTIONS A AND B

Ambassadors are the Heads of Mission in foreign countries. Strictly speaking they are the

representatives of the British Head of State in such countries.

Until the twentieth century however Ambassadors were appointed only to those countries deemed

of most importance to Britain. In other countries with which Britain had diplomatic relations, the

Mission was of a lesser status and was generally called a Legation, headed by a Minister. The term

Minister Resident was used for the representative in certain countries in, for example, South and

Central America and in the Balkans, which might have only recently become independent or were

regarded as of lesser international status.

Post 1945 there was a steady increase in the number of Legations upgraded to Embassies and

Legations died out altogether during the 1960s.

Changes in the status of representation for specific countries are noted in the listings.

In countries which are members of the Commonwealth the British Government is represented by a

High Commissioner.

The title of Minister also began to be accorded towards the end of the nineteenth century to the

effective second-in-command of the largest Embassies. The first such accreditation of a

diplomat as Minister within a major Embassy seems to have been to Paris in the 1860s. This

practice became more common during the twentieth century. After 1945 some major embassies

would also have a Minister(Commercial) with appropriate responsibilities. The changing nature

of British diplomatic relations with particular countries might lead to commensurate changes in

the staffing of Missions. Such changes will be evident from the listings.

Missions were staffed, at the level below Ambassador or Minister, by Secretaries of Embassy or

of Legation as appropriate. This title was replaced by the use of the word Counsellor from 1904.

The lists contained in Section B therefore use the word Counsellor as a short-hand method of

identifying such individuals. During the twentieth century the numbers of Counsellors in British

missions multiplied, with Counsellors(Commercial) becoming relatively normal appointments in

many countries and Counsellors with other designated responsibilities in the largest embassies.

I have included in these lists as far as possible those Counsellors who could be identified as the

senior Counsellors or the Counsellor(Political) within an Embassy or High Commission. In some

cases these individuals held the additional post of Head of Chancery(although the Head of

Chancery might equally be a First Secretary-the grade below that of Counsellor).

In more recent years the title of Deputy Head of Mission has apparently replaced that of Minister

and has also encompassed the role previously taken by those Counsellors appointed to Embassies

without a resident Minister.

I have also attempted to provide lists of the Commercial Counsellors in at least the major British

diplomatic missions abroad.


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In the interests of continuity I have included some Secretaries of Legation during the decade prior

to the outbreak of the First World War who were ranked as First Secretaries rather than the

higher grade of Counsellor.

At the Consular level Consuls-General have been appointed to major cities in overseas countries.

I have attempted to provide lists of many of these appointments but it should be noted that there

have been frequent changes in the designation of consular appointments in many such cities over

the period covered by this Directory and in recent decades a number of Consuls-General posts

have disappeared or downgraded to Consulates.

The practice in some Commonwealth countries was to appoint a British Deputy High

Commissioner in certain major cities. This appointment should not be confused with the Deputy

High Commissioner within the British High Commission itself located in the countrys capital city.

In Australia Deputy High Commissioners located in such cities have now been replaced by

Consuls-General. This change has not, to date, been extended to India, Pakistan or Nigeria.

Where possible years of birth and of death are given but it has not always proved possible to

determine such information.

As far as possible breaks in diplomatic relations with a country are noted and briefly explained.

There were also occasions where, for particular reasons, British representation to a country might

be downgraded, with the withdrawal of the Ambassador, Minister or High Commissioner but the

retention of representation through a Charge dAffaires. These too are noted where possible.

In the Alphabetical Sections (A, E and H) persons appointed to be Heads of Mission or to

Governorships who were not professional diplomats or civil cervants are included but only those

posts are listed and no attempt has been made to give a list of their other various appointments.

In a few cases however an appointment within, for example, the Cabinet Office might have been

if it had some responsibility for foreign policy.


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SECTION A: ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF DIPLOMATS 1820-2005

ABBOTT, ANTHONY J.,

C.M.G., O.B.E.(1941- Consul-General, Perth, Australia, 1993-1997; Governor of

Montserrat, 1997-2001

ABBOTT, ARTHUR, C.B.E.

(1879-1955): Consul-General, Sao Paulo, 1928-1939

ABBOTT, PETER: Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy, Portugal,

2014-

ABBOTT, WILLIAM G.,

(18 -1917): Consul-General, Rio de Janeiro, 1889-1895

ABBOTT-WATT, THORHILDA

(THORDA) M.V., O.B.E.

(1955- Ambassador to Armenia, 2002-2006; Ambasador to Outer

Mongolia, 2008-2009 and 2011-2012; Ambassador to

Turkmenistan, 2016-

ABERCROMBY, Hon. SIR

RALPH, K.C.B. (later 2nd

LORD DUNFERMLINE)

(1803-1868): Secretary of Legation, Prussia, 1831-1836; Minister Resident,

Tuscany, 1836-1839; Minister to the German

Confederation, 1839-1840; Minister to Sardinia-

Piedmont, 1840-1852; Minister to the Netherlands,

1852-1858

ABERDEEN, Rt.Hon. GEORGE,

4th EARL OF, K.G., K.T., G.C.B.

(1784-1860): Ambassador to Austria, 1813-1814


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ACLAND, SIR ANTONY A.,

K.G., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.

(1930- Head of Arabian Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1970-1972; Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign

Secretary, 1972-1975; Ambassador to Luxemburg, 1975-1977;

Ambassador to Spain, 1977-1980; Deputy Under-Secretary for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs(Defence and Intelligence),

1980-1982; Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign and

Commonwealth Affairs, 1982-1986; Ambassador to the U.S.A.,

1986-1991

ACOURT, Rt.Hon. SIR

WILLIAM, Bt.., G.C.B.

(later 1st LORD HEYTESBURY)

(1779-1860): Secretary of Legation, The Two Sicilies, 1801-1807;

Minister to the Two Sicilies, 1814-1822; Minister to

Spain, 1822-1824; Ambassador to Portugal, 1828-1832;

Ambassador to Russia, 1828-1832

ACTON, RICHARD, 2nd

LORD, K.C.V.O. (1870-1924): Secretary of Legation, the Netherlands, 1906-1911; Charge

dAffaires, Hesse-Darmstadt and Baden, 1911-1914;

Secretary of Legation, Switzerland, 1914-1919; Minister to

Finland, 1919-1920

ADAIR, ARTHUR R., C.V.O.,

M.B.E.(1913-1981): Deputy High Commissioner, Dacca, Pakistan, 1960-1964;

Deputy High Commissioner, Cyprus, 1964-1968; High

Commissioner in Brunei, 1968-1972

ADAIR, Rt. Hon. SIR ROBERT,

G.C.B.(1763-1855): Ambassador to Turkey, 1809-1810

ADAM, C.F. FREDERICK

(1852-1913): Secretary of Legation, Brazil, 1888-1892; Secretary of Legation,

Belgium, 1892-1897; Secretary of Embassy, U.S.A., 1897-1898;

Secretary of Embassy(Counsellor), Spain, 1898-1905


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ADAM, FREDERICK E.F.,

C.M.G.(1887-1969): Counsellor, Embassy, Portugal, 1929-1934; Minister to Panama

and Costa Rica, 1934-1939

ADAMS, ALEC C.S.,C.M.G.,

C.B.E.(1909-2002): Consul-General, Houston, 1953-1955; Counsellor, Embassy,

Thailand, 1956-1962; Deputy Commissioner, South-East Asia,

1962-1963; Political Adviser, Far East Forces, 1963-1967

ADAMS, ALEXANDER A.,

C.B.E.(1884-1955): Commercial Counsellor, Spain, 1933-1935; Commercial

Counsellor, Romania, 1935-1941; Commercial Counsellor,

Turkey, 1941

ADAMS, C. CHRISTIAN W.,

C.M.G. (1939-1996): Senior Trade Commissioner, Hong Kong, 1982-1985; Head of

South-East Asia Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1986-1988; Ambassador to Thailand, 1992-1996

ADAMS, SIR FRANCIS O.,

K.C.M.G., C.B.(1825-1889): Secretary of Legation, Japan, 1868-1872; Secretary of Embassy,

Germany, 1872-1874; Secretary of Embassy, France,

1874-1875; Minister, France, 1875-1881; Minister to

Switzerland, 1881-1888

ADAMS, SIR GEOFFREY D.,

K.C.M.G.(1957- Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Egypt, 1998-2001;

Consul-General, Jerusalem, 2001-2003; Principal Private

Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 2003-2005;

Ambassador to Iran, 2006-2009; Director-General,

Political, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2009-2012;

Ambassador to the Netherlands, 2013-2017

ADAMS, SIR PHILIP G.D.,

K.C.M.G.(1915-2001): Head of Security Department, Foreign Office, 1959-1963;

Consul-General, Chicago, 1963-1966; Ambassador to Jordan,

1966-1970; Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign and

Commonwealth Affairs(Middle East and North Africa), 1970;

Deputy Secretary(Foreign Affairs), Cabinet Office, 1971-1972;

Ambassador to Egypt,1973-1975


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ADAMS, SIR W. JAMES,

K.C.M.G.(1932- Head of European Integration (2) Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1971-1972; Counsellor, U.K.

Delegation to the European Economic Community, 1973-1977;

Economic Counsellor, Italy, 1977-1980; Assistant Under-

Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

(Public Departments), 1980-1982; Assistant Under-Secretary

for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs(Transport and

Energy), 1982-1984; Ambassador to Tunisia, 1984-1987;

Ambassador to Egypt, 1987-1992

ADAMS, WILLIAM P.( -1852): Secretary of Legation, Colombia, 1835-1842; Charge

dAffaires, Peru, 1842-1852

ADAMSON, JOANNE, O.B.E.(1967- Deputy Permanent Representative to the Disarmament

Conference, 2009-2011; Permanent Representative to

the Diarmament Conference, 2011-2013; Ambassador

to Mali, 2014-2016

ADDINGTON, Rt. Hon. HENRY U.

(1790-1870): Secretary of Legation, Switzerland, 1814-1818; Secretary of

Legation, Denmark, 1821-1822; Secretary of Legation,

U.S.A., 1823-1825; Minister to the German

Confederation, 1828-1829; Minister to Spain,

1829-1833; Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign

Affairs, 1842-1854

ADDIS, SIR JOHN M., K.C.M.G.

(1914-1983): Counsellor, Legation, China, 1954-1957; Head of Southern

Department, Foreign Office, 1957-1960; Ambassador to

Laos, 1960-1962; Ambassador to the Philippines,

1963-1970; Senior Civilian Instructor, Royal College

of Defence Studies, 1970-1972; Ambassador to China,

1972-1974

ADDISON, SIR JOSEPH,

K.C.M.G.(1879-1953): Commercial Counsellor, France, 1918-1920; Counsellor,

Embassy, Germany, 1920-1927; Minister to Latvia, Estonia

and Lithuania, 1928-1930; Minister to Czechoslovakia,

1930-1936; Ambassador to Chile, 1936 (did not proceed)


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ADDISON, Brigadier LEONARD

J.L., C.M.G., C.B.E.

(1902-1975): Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta, India, 1949-1952

AGAR ELLIS, Hon. GEORGE A.W.

(18 -1872): Secretary of Legation, Greece, 1866-1869

AGAR-ROBARTES, Hon.

FRANCIS G., M.V.O.

(later 7th VISCOUNT CLIFDEN)

(1883-1966): Counsellor, Embassy, Spain, 1926-1927

AHMAD, ASIF A., C.M.G.(1956- Head of Commonwealth Co-ordination Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2002-2004;

Director, Asia, U.K. Trade and Investment,

2004-2008; Head of South-East Asia and Pacific

Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

2008-2010; Ambassador to Thailand, 2010-2012;

Ambassador to the Philippines, 2013-2017; High

Commissioner to Jamaica, 2017-

AIERS, DAVID P., C.M.G.

(1922-1983): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Far East Command,

1965-1968; Head of South-West Pacific Department,


Deputy High Commissioner, Australia, 1971-1976;

High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, 1976-1979; High

Commissioner to Malta, 1979-1982

AINSLIE, SIR ROBERT, BT.

(c.1730-1812): Ambassador to Turkey, 1775-1794

AIREY, KATE, O.B.E.: High Commissioner to Namibia, 2018-

ALBAN, ARTHUR D., O.B.E.: Consul-General, Alexandria, 1919-1924

ALBAN, Major REGINALD G.E.W.,

O.B.E.: Counsellor, Legation, Afghanistan, 1939-1940


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ALCOCK, SIR RUTHERFORD,

K.C.B.(1809-1897): Minister to Japan, 1858-1865; Minister to China, 1865-1871

ALDERTON, CLIVE, L.V.O.

(1967- Consul-General, Lille, 2004-2006; Ambassador to

Morocco, 2012-2015

ALDINGTON, SIR GEOFFREY W.,

K.B.E., C.M.G.(1907- Head of Information Services Department, Foreign

Office, 1947-1950; Political Adviser, Hong Kong,

1950-1953; Consul-General, Zagreb, 1954-1956;

Consul-General, Philadelphia, 1956-1961;

Ambassador to Luxemburg, 1961-1966

ALESSANDRI, MADELEINE K.,

C.M.G. (1965- Counsellor(Political), Embassy, Japan, 2004-2007

ALEXANDER, SIR MICHAEL

OD. B., G.C.M.G.(1936-2002): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, U.K. Delegation to the

United Nations Organizations, Geneva, 1975-1977; Head of

Personnel Operations Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1978-1979; Private Secretary

(Foreign Affairs) to the Prime Minister, 1979-1981;

Ambassador to Austria, 1982-1986, and Head of U.K.

Delegation to Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force

And Armaments Reductions in Europe, 1985-1986;

Permanent Representative to N.A.T.O., 1986-1992

ALEXANDER, NICHOLAS: Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Neherlands,

2011-2015

ALEXANDER, THOMAS J.

(1940-2012): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Sudan, 1982-1983

ALISON, CHARLES, C.B.

(1810-1872): Secretary of Embassy, Turkey, 1857-1860; Minister to Persia,

1860-1872


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ALLAN, Hon. SIR ALEXANDER

C.S., K.C.B.(1951- Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the

Exchequer, 1986-1989; Assistant Under-Secretary,

Treasury, 1989-1992; Principal Private Secretary to the

Prime Minister, 1992-1997; High Commissioner to

Australia, 1997-1999; Permanent Secretary,

Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2004-2007;

Chairman of Joint Intelligence Committee, 2007-2011

ALLAN, CHRISTOPHER: Head of South Asia Group, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 2009-2010; Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2015-

ALLAN, JAMES N. C.M.G.,

C.B.E.(1932- Head of Overseas Information Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1978-1981; High Commissioner to

Mauritius, 1981-1985; Ambassador to Mozambique,

1986-1989; Senior Civilian Instructor, Royal College of

Defence Studies, 1989-1992

ALLAN, KEITH R. (1968- Deputy High Commissioner, Trinidad and Tobago, 2003-2006;

Ambassador to Turkmenistan, 2010-2013; Consul-General,

St. Petersburg, 2013-2017; High Commissioner to

Mauritius, 2017-

ALLCHIN, SIR GEOFFREY C.,

K.B.E., C.M.G., M.C.

(1895-1968): Head of Consular Department, Foreign Office, 1943-1947;

Inspector-General, 1947-1949; Minister/Ambassador to

Luxemburg, 1949-1955

ALLEN, DONALD G., C.M.G.

(1930-2007): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, U.K. Delegation to the

O.E.C.D., 1974-1978; Home Inspector, 1978-1980

ALLEN, JONATHAN G.(1974- Ambassador to Bulgaria, 2012-2015; Director, National

Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2015-2017;

Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the

U.N.O., New York, 2017-


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ALLEN, MARK E., C.M.G.,

C.V.O.(1917-2003): Head of Defence Department, Commonwealth Relations

Department, 1956-1957; Head of Ghana Department,

Commonwealth Relations Office, 1957-1960; Deputy High

Commissioner, Madras, India, 1960-1961; Counsellor, High

Commission, India, 1961-1963; Inspector, 1964-1966;

Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth

Affairs and Deputy Chief of Administration, 1966-1968;

Minister(Economic and Social), U.K. Delegation to the

United Nations Organization, New York, 1968-1971;

Ambassador to Zaire and Burundi, 1971-1974, and to

Congo, 1973-1974; Permanent U.K. Representative to the

Disarmament Conference, 1974-1977

ALLEN, SIR RICHARD H.S.,

K.C.M.G.(1903-1996): Head of South-East Asia Department, Foreign Office,

1946-1947; Counsellor, Embassy, Poland, 1948-1950;

Minister, Argentina, 1950-1954; Minister to Guatemala,

1954-1956; Ambassador to Burma, 1956-1962

ALLEN, SIR ROGER,

K.C.M.G.(1909-1972): Head of United Nations(Political) Department, Foreign Office,

1949-1950; Head of African Department, Foreign Office,

1950-1953; Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs

(Middle East), 1953-1954; Deputy High Commissioner/

Minister, Federal Republic of Germany, 1954-1956;

Ambassador to Greece, 1957-1961; Ambassador to Iraq,

1961-1965; Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs

(Middle East and Africa), 1965-1967; Ambassador to Turkey,

1967-1969


19

ALLEN, SIR W. DENIS, G.C.M.G.

(1910-1987): Counsellor, Embassy, U.S.A., 1946-1949; Head of German

Political Department, Foreign Office, 1949-1952; Head of

Central Department, Foreign Office, 1952-1953;

Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs(Asia),

Foreign Office, 1953-1956; Deputy Under-Secretary for

Foreign Affairs and Chief Clerk, Foreign Office,

1956-1959; Deputy Commissioner-General for South-

East Asia, 1959-1963; Ambassador to Turkey, 1963-1967;

Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs(Middle East,

Africa and Asia/Middle East and North America),

1967-1969

ALLINSON, SIR W. LEONARD,

K.C.V.O., C.M.G.(1926- Head of Permanent Under-Secretarys Department,


Counsellor and Head of Chancery, High Commission,

Kenya, 1970-1972; Deputy High Commissioner,

Kenya, 1972-1973; Inspector, 1975; Minister and Deputy

High Commissioner, India, 1975-1978; High

Commissioner to Zambia, 1978-1980; Assistant Under-

Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

(Africa), 1980-1982; High Commissioner to Kenya,

1982-1986

ALMOND, T. CLIVE,

O.B.E.(1939- Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of the Congo, 1987-1988;

Consul-General, Bordeaux, 1992-1998

ALSTON, SIR FRANCIS B.,

K.C.M.G.(1820-1905): Senior Clerk, Russian Department, Foreign Office, 1857-1859;

Senior Clerk, Asiatic and U.S.A. Department, Foreign

Office, 1859-1866; Chief, Clerk, Foreign Office,

1866-1890


20

ALSTON, Rt. Hon. SIR

BEILBY F., K.C.M.G., C.B.

(1868-1929): Acting Senior Clerk, Consular Department, Foreign Office,

1906-1907; Senior Clerk, Far East Department, Foreign

Office, 1907-1916; Acting Counsellor, Embassy, China,

1912, 1913-1914 and 1916-1917; Minister to China, 1920-1922;

Minister to Argentina, 1922-1925; Ambassador to Brazil,

1925-1927

ALSTON, ROBERT J.,

C.M.G.(1938- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, U.K. Delegation to N.A.T.O.,

1981-1984; Head of Defence Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1984-1986; Ambassador to Oman,


Commonwealth Affairs(Public Departments), 1992-1994; High

Commissioner to New Zealand, 1994-1998

AMHERST, Rt. Hon. WILLIAM

P., 1st LORD, G.C.B.(later 1

st

EARL AMHERST)

(1773-1857): Minister to the Two Sicilies, 1809-1811; Governor-General

of India, 1823-1828

AMORY, Rt.Hon. DERICK,

1st VISCOUNT, K.G., G.C.M.G.,

T.D. (1899-1981): High Commissioner to Canada, 1961-1963

AMOS, Rt. Hon. BARONESS

(1954- High Commissioner to Australia, 2009-2010

AMPTHILL (see RUSSELL)

AMY, DENNIS O., C.M.G.,

O.B.E.(1932-2016): Head of Migration and Visa Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1985-1986; Consul-General,

Bordeaux, 1986-1989; Ambassador to Madagascar,

1990-1992


21

ANDERSON, DAVID H., C.M.G.

(1937- Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

1987-1989; Second Legal Adviser, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office,1989-1996

ANDERSON, GEORGE D.,

C.M.G. (1913-1983): Counsellor, Embassy, Ireland, 1960; Head of Technical

Assistance Department, Commonwealth Relations

Office, 1960-1961; Deputy High Commissioner, Ceylon,

1961-1966; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, High

Commission, Nigeria, 1967-1969; High Commissioner to

Botswana, 1969-1973

ANDERSON, SIR H. PERCY,

K.C.B., K.C.M.G.(1831-1896): Senior Clerk, German Department, Foreign Office,

1873-1883; Senior Clerk, Consular and African

Department, Foreign Office, 1883-1893; Assistant

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1894-1896

ANDERSON, JENNIFER E.

(1968- High Commissioner to Botswana, 2010-2013; Head of

Counter-Terrorism Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 2014-2016; Minister Counsellor and

Deputy Head of Mission, Turkey, 2017-

ANDREWS, CYRIL F.W.(1892-1978): Minister to the Dominican Republic, 1943-1945;

Consul-General, Lourenco Marques, 1947-1949;

Consul-General, Algiers, 1949-1952

ANGLIN, ERIC J. (1923-1999): Inspector, 1973-1976; Charge dAffaires, Chile, 1978-1979;

Consul-General, Melbourne, Australia, 1979-1983

ANGST, SIR HENRY, K.C.M.G.

(1847-1922): Consul-General, Zurich, 1896-1915

ANNELLS, VICTOR: Consul-General, Milan, 2011-2014; Director, U.K. Trade

and Investment, Saudi Arabia, 2014-

ANNESLEY, GEORGE R.L.

(18 - 1891): Consul-General, Hamburg, 1880-1885


22

ANSTEY, SIDNEY H. (1910-1991): Consul-General, Bilbao, 1966-1967; Consul-General,

Atlanta, 1968-1970

ANTROBUS, GIBBS C.

(1793-1861): Secretary of Legation, U.S.A., 1816-1821; Secretary of Legation.

Sardinia-Piedmont, 1823-1824; Secretary of Legation, The

Two Sicilies, 1824-1826

ANTROBUS, MAURICE E.,

C.M.G., O.B.E.(1895-1985): Political Secretary, High Commission, South Africa, 1935-1939;

Official Secretary, High Commission, Australia, 1941-1944;

Official Secretary, High Commission, New Zealand,

1944-1945; Head of General Department, Commonwealth

Relations Office, 1952-1954; Head of Protocol

Department, Commonwealth Relations Office, 1954-1955

APPLEYARD, SIR LEONARD V.,

K.C.M.G.(1938- Financial Counsellor, France, 1979-1982; Head of

Economic Relations Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1982-1984; Principal Private

Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1984-1986;

Ambassador to Hungary, 1986-1989; Deputy

Secretary(Overseas and Defence), Cabinet Office,

1989-1991; Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign and

Commonwealth Affairs and Political Director,

1991-1994; Ambassador to China, 1994-1997

ARBUTHNOT, Rt. Hon.

CHARLES(1767-1850): Secretary of Legation, Sweden, 1795-1799; Envoy to Sweden,

1802-1804; Ambassador to Turkey, 1804-1807

ARBUTHNOTT, HUGH J.,

C.M.G.(1936- Head of European Integration(External), Department, Foreign

and Commonwealth Office, 1975-1977; Economic

Counsellor, France, 1978-1980; Counsellor and Head of

Chancery, Embassy, France, 1980-1983; Ambassador to

Romania, 1986-1989; Ambassador to Portugal, 1989-1993;

Ambassador to Denmark, 1993-1996


23

ARCHER, GRAHAM R.,

C.M.G.(1939- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, South Africa, 1982-

1986; Counsellor, Embassy, the Netherlands, 1986-1990; Head of

Republic of Ireland Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1990-1994; High Commissioner to Malta, 1995-1999

ARCHER, NICHOLAS S.,

M.V.O.(1960- Head of North East Asia and Pacific Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 2001-2002; Head of Near East and

North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 2002-2005; High Commissioner to Malta, 2005-2008;

Ambassador to Denmark, 2008-2012; Managing Director,

Policy and Network Development, U.K. Trade and

Investment, 2014-2017; Ambassador to the Czech

Republic, 2018-

ARCHER, NORMAN E., C.M.G.,

O.B.E. (1892-1970): Official Secretary, High Commission, Canada, 1932-1936;

Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for

the Dominions, 1939-1940; Assistant Secretary,

Dominions Office, 1941-1944; Assistant Under-Secretary

for Commonwealth Relations, 1948-1949

ARCHIBALD, SIR EDWARD M.,

K.C.M.G., C.B.(1810-1884): Consul-General, New York, 1871-1883

ARCULUS, SIR RONALD,

K.C.M.G.(1923-2016): Head of Science and Technology Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1970-1972; Minister(Economic),

France, 1973-1977; Leader, U.K. Delegation to U.N.

Conference on Law of the Sea, 1977-1979;

Ambassador to Italy, 1979-1983

ARKWRIGHT, PAUL T.,

C.M.G. (1962- Counsellor(Political), U.K. Delegation to N.A.T.O., 2001-2005;

Head of Counter-Proliferation Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 2006-2009; Ambassador to the

Netherlands, 2009-2013; Director, Multilateral Policy,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2013-2015; High

Commissioner to Nigeria, 2015-


24

ARMITAGE, HENRY ST.J. B.,

C.B.E.(1924-2004): Consul-General, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1974-1978

ARMOUR, NICHOLAS H.S.

(1951- Counsellor and Head of Chancery/Deputy Head of Mission,

Oman, 1991-1994; Consul-General, Dubai, 1997-2000;

Head of North America Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 2000-2003; Senior Civilian

Instructor, Royal College of Defence Studies, 2003-2005;

Consul-General, Toronto, 2005-2009; Director,

International Group, U.K. Trade and Investment, 2009-2012

ARMSTRONG, SIR HARRY

GLOSTER-, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.

(1861-1938): Consul-General, Boston, 1919-1920; Consul-General, New

York, 1920-1931

ARNOLD, CATHERINE E.J.: Ambassador to Mongolia, 2015-2018

ARON, MICHAEL D.

(1959- Head of Management Consultancy and Inspection


1998-1999; Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission,

Jordan, 1999-2002; Counsellor(Political), U.K.

Permanent Representation to the European Union,

2002-2006; Ambassador to Kuwait, 2008-2009; Head of

Middle East Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 2010-2011; Ambassador to Iraq, 2011-2012;

Ambassador to Libya, 2013-2015; Ambassador to

Sudan, 2015-2018; Ambassador to Yemen, 2018-

ARON, RACHEL A.G.(1951- Ambassador to Belgium, 2007-2010

ARRAN (see GORE)

ARTHINGTON-DAVY,

HUMPHREY A., L.V.O., O.B.E.

(1920-1993): Deputy High Commissioner, Mauritius, 1968-1970; High

Commissioner to Tonga, 1973-1980, and Western

Samoa, 1973-1977


25

ARTHUR, SIR GEOFFREY G.,

K.C.M.G.(1920-1984): Counsellor, Embassy, United Arab Republic, 1959-1963;

Head of Permanent Under-Secretarys Department,

Foreign Office, 1963-1966; Head of Defence Department,

Foreign Office, 1966; Ambassador to Kuwait,

1967-1968; Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign

Affairs(Middle East and North Africa), 1968-1970;

Political Resident, Persian Gulf, 1970-1971; Deputy

Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth

Affairs(Defence and Intelligence), 1973-1975

ARTHUR, JAMES S., C.M.G.

(1923-2010): Counsellor, High Commission, Kenya, 1967-1970; Deputy

High Commissioner, Malta, 1970-1973; High

Commissioner to Fiji, 1974-1978; High

Commissioner to Barbados and British

Government Representative to the West Indian

Associated States, 1978-1982

ARTHUR, SIR MICHAEL A.,

K.C.M.G.(1950- Head of European Community(Internal) Department,


Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, France,

1993-1997; Director, Resources and Chief Inspector,


Minister, U.S.A., 1999-2000; Director, Economic,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2001-

Director-General, European Union and Economic,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 200 -2003;

High Commissioner to India, 2003-2007; Ambassador

to Germany, 2007-2010

ASHBURNHAM, Hon. CHARLES

(1803-1848): Secretary of Legation, Mexico, 1835-1841

ASHCROFT, ANDREW R. (1961- Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Haiti,

2002-2006


26

ASHE, SIR DERICK R., K.C.M.G.

(1919-2000): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Ethiopia,

1962-1964; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy,

Cuba, 1964-1966; Head of Security Department, Foreign

Office, 1966-1969; Minister, Japan, 1969-1971;

Ambassador to Romania, 1972-1975; Ambassador to

Argentina, 1975-1977; Permanent Representative to the

Disarmament Conference, Geneva, 1977-1979

ASHFORD, WILLIAM S.,

O.B.E.(1924-2006): Consul-General, Adelaide, Australia, 1977-1980; High

Commissioner to Vanuatu, 1980-1982

ASHTON, JOHN (1956- Head of Environment, Science and Energy/Environmental

Policy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1998-2002

ASHTON-GWATKIN, FRANK T.A.,

C.B., C.M.G.(1889-1976): Counsellor, Embassy, U.S.S.R., 1929-1930; Head

of the Economic Relations Department, Foreign

Office, 1934-1939; Assistant Under-Secretary for

Foreign Affairs and Chief Clerk, 1940-1944;

Senior Inspector, Foreign Office, 1944-1947

ASHTOWN

(see TRENCH)

ASHWORTH, PATRICK(1950- High Commissioner to Belize, 2009-2013

ASPIN, NORMAN, C.M.G.

(1922- 2011): Deputy High Commissioner, Sierra Leone, 1961-1963; Head of

East Africa Political Department, Commonwealth

Relations Office, 1963-1965; Counsellor and Head of

Chancery, Embassy, Israel, 1966-1969; Head of Personnel

Policy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,


Commonwealth AffairsAfrica), 1974-1976; High

Commissioner to Malta, 1976-1979; Assistant Under-

Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs(West

and East Africa), 1979-1980


27

ASQUITH, Hon. SIR DOMINIC

A.G., K.C.M.G.(1957- Minister, Argentina, 1997-2001; Counsellor and Deputy

Head of Mission, Saudi Arabia, 2001-2004;

Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Iraq, 2004;

Director, Iraq, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

2004-2006; Ambassador to Iraq, 2006-2007;

Ambassador to Egypt, 2007-2011; Ambassador to

Libya, 2011-2012; High Commissioner to India, 2016-

ASTBURY, NICHOLAS P.(1971- Ambassador to Eritrea, 2006-2008

ASTLEY, PHILIP S., C.V.O.

(1943- Inspector/Head of Management Review Staff, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1984-1986; Economic and

Commercial Counsellor, Pakistan, 1986-1990;

Counsellor and Head of Chancery/Deputy Head of

Mission, Denmark, 1990-1994; Head of Human Rights



Commonwealth Affairs and Vice-Marshal of the

Diplomatic Corps, 1996-1999; Ambassador to Denmark,

1999-2003

ASTON, SIR ARTHUR, G.C.B.

(17 -1860): Secretary of Legation, Brazil, 1826-1833; Secretary of

Embassy, France, 1833-1839; Minister to Spain, 1840-1843

ASTON, THOMAS W., C.M.G.

(1922-1981): Deputy High Commissioner, Uganda, 1964-1965; Inspector,

1969-1972; Senior British Trade Commissioner, Hong

Kong, 1972-1974; Consul-General, Los Angeles,

1974-1981

ATKINSON, GILLIAN: Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Poland, 2012-2013

ATKINSON, JAMES O.,

C.M.G.(1944-2006): Deputy High Commissioner, Uganda, 1993-1997;

Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

2000-2004


28

ATKINSON, MICHAEL W.,

C.M.G., M.B.E.(1932- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Hungary,


China, 1980-1982; Head of Consular Department,


Ambassador to Ecuador, 1985-1989; Ambassador to

Romania, 1989-1992

ATTEWELL, BRIAN (1937- Commercial Counsellor, Belgium, 1988-1992; High

Commissioner to the Bahamas, 1992-1996

ATTWOOD, STEWART G.

(1948- Head of Home Estates Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1997-

AUCKLAND, Rt. Hon. WILLIAM,

1st LORD(1745-1814): Ambassador to Spain, 1788-1789; Ambassador to the

Netherlands, 1790-1793

AUCKLAND (see EDEN)

AUDLAND, SIR CHRISTOPHER

J., K.C.M.G.(1926- Head of Scientific Relations/Science and Technology



Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-1973; Deputy

Secretary-General, European Economic Community,

1973-1981; Director-General for Energy, European

Commission, 1981-1986

AUST, ANTHONY I., C.M.G.

(1942- Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

2000-2002

AUSTEN, RICHARD J., M.B.E.

(1955- Ambassador to Panama, 2006-2011


29

AUSTIN, BRIAN P.(1938- Deputy High Commissioner, Kaduna, Nigeria, 1981-1984;

Head of Communications Operations Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1984-198 ;

Commercial Counsellor, Sweden, 1989-1993; Consul-

General, Vancouver, 1993-1998

AVELING, ARTHUR F.,

C.M.G, C.B.E.(1893-1954): Counsellor, Embassy, Poland, 1935-1937; Counsellor,

Embassy, Belgium, 1937-1940

AVERY, DAVID R., O.B.E.

(1921-1983): Head of Claims Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1978-1980

AVES, JONATHAN J.: Joint Ambassador to Armenia, 2012-2014

AXWORTHY, SALLY,

M.B.E.: Ambassador to the Holy See, 2016-

AYRE, ANDREW(1966- High Commissioner to Guyana and Ambassador to Surinam,

2011-2015

BACHE, ANDREW P.F.,

C.M.G.(1939- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Japan, 1981-1985;

Counsellor, Embassy, Turkey, 1985-1988; Head of

Personnel Services Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1988-1990; Ambassador to Romania, 1992-1996;

Ambassador to Denmark, 1996-1999

BACKHOUSE, JOHN

(1784-1845): Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1827-1842

BACON, PETER J. (1941- Commercial Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission,

Indonesia, 1992-1995; Consul-General, Houston, 1995-2001

BAGGALLAY, H. LACY,

(1897-1943): (Acting) Head of Eastern Department, Foreign Office, 1939-1940;

Counsellor, Embassy, U.S.S.R., 1941-1943


30

BAGGE, SIR J. PICTON,

Bt., C.M.G.(1877-1967): Director, Foreign Division, Department of Overseas Trade,

1928-1937

BAGOT, Rt.Hon. SIR CHARLES,

G.C.B.(1781-1843): Minister to the U.S.A., 1815-1820; Ambassador to Russia,

1820-1824; Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1824-1832;

Governor-General of Canada, 1841-1843

BAILES, ALYSON J.K.,

C.M.G.(1949-2016): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, China, 1987-1989;

Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Norway,

1990-1993; Head of Security Policy Department, Foreign

and Commonwealth Office, 1994-1996; Ambassador to

Finland, 2000-2002

BAILEY, Lieutenant-Colonel

FREDERICK M., C.I.E.

(1882-1967): Minister to Nepal, 1935-1938

BAILEY, RONALD W., C.M.G.

(1917-2010): Counsellor, Embassy, U.S.A., 1955-1957; Counsellor,

Embassy, Sudan, 1957-1960; Consul-General,

Gothenburg, 1963-1965; Minister, Iraq, 1965-1967;

Ambassador to Bolivia, 1967-1971; Ambassador to

Morocco, 1971-1975

BAILLIE, ALASTAIR T.

(1932-2009): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Ethiopia,

1980-1981; Commercial Counsellor, Venezuela,

1981-1983; Governor of Anguilla, 1983-1987; Deputy

High Commissioner, Calcutta, India, 1987-1991

BAILLIE, EVAN P. M.

(1824-1874): Secretary of Legation, Brazil, 1859-1861; Secretary of Legation,

Wurttemberg, 1861-1871; Charge dAffaires, Hesse-

Darmstadt and Baden, 1871-1873

BAILLIE, JOHN G. (1896-1960): Minister to Liberia, 1949-1951; Consul-General,

Gothenburg, 1951-1955


31

BAILLIE HAMILTON, SIR

GEORGE (1798-1850): Secretary of Legation, Belgium, 1833-1835; Secretary of

Legation, Prussia, 1835-1846; Minister to Tuscany,

1845-1850

BAIRD, NICHOLAS G.F., C.M.G.,

C.V.O. (1962- Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Oman,

1997-1998; Counsellor, U.K. Delegation to the

European Union, 1998-2002; Head of European

Union(Internal) Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 2002-2004; Ambassador to

Turkey, 2006-2009; Director-General, Europe and

Globalisation, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

2009-2011; Chief Executive Officer, U.K. Trade and

Investment, 2011-2013

BAKER. ANTHONY C., L.V.O.,

M.B.E.(1921-2008): Consul-General, Genoa, 1979-1981

BAKER, ANTHONY St.J.

(1785-1854): Secretary of Legation, U.S.A., 1811-1816

BAKER, FRANCIS R., C.M.G.,

O.B.E. (1961- Head of Africa(Equatorial) Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 2000-2003; Counsellor(Politico/

Military), Embassy, U.S.A., 2003-2004; Counsellor

(Foreign and Security Policy), Embassy, U.S.A.,

2004-2007; Director, Iraq, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 2007-2009; Ambassador to Kuwait, 2010-2014;

Ambassador to Iraq, 2014-2017; Ambassaor to Libya.

2018-

BAKER, GEOFFREY H., C.M.G.

(1916- 1999): Consul-General, Hanoi, 1954-1956; Counsellor, U.K.

Delegation to E.F.T.A., 1960-1966; Consul-General,

Munich, 1966-1971; Consul-General, Zagreb, 1971-1973

BAKER, GEORGE W, C.B.E.,

V.R.D.(1917-1996): High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, 1975-1977


32

BAKER, GORDON M. (1941- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Chile,

1986-1989; Head of West Indian and Atlantic


1991-1994; High Commissioner to Belize, 1995-1998;

High Commissioner to Barbados, 1998-2001

BAKER, NIGEL M., O.B.E.,

M.V.O. (1966- Ambassador to Bolivia, 2007-2011; Ambassador to the Holy

See, 2011-2016

BAKER, PIERS H.B.(1956- Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Austria, 2001-2006

BAKER, RICHARD H.(1935- Deputy Head U.K. Delegation to the O.E.C.D., 1978-1982;

Deputy High Commissioner, Canada, 1982-1986; Senior

Civilian Instructor, Royal College of Defence Studies,

1986-1989

BAKER-BATES, MERRICK S.,

C.M.G.(1939- Commercial Counsellor, Japan, 1979-1982; Deputy High

Commissioner, Malaysia, 1986-1989; Head of South

American Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1989-1990; Head of South Atlantic and Antarctic


1990-1992; Consul-General, Los Angeles, 1992-1997

BALDWIN, BRIAN P. (1944- High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands, 2001-2004

BALDWIN, Colonel SIR JOHN G.,

K.C.M.G., C.B.(1867-1939): Consul-General, Lourenco Marques, 1904-1908; Consul-

General, Dakar, 1908-1909

BALFOUR, DAVID, C.B.E.

(1903-1989): Consul-General, Genoa, 1955-1960; Consul-General,

Geneva, 1960-1963


33

BALFOUR, SIR JOHN, G.C.M.G.

(1894-1983): Head of the American Department, Foreign Office,

1938-1941; Minister, Portugal, 1941-1943; Minister,

U.S.S.R., 1943-1945; Minister, U.S.A., 1945-1948;

Ambassador to Argentina, 1948-1951; Ambassador to

Spain, 1951-1954

BALFOUR, RAYMOND L., L.V.O.

(1923- Economic and Commercial Counsellor, Libya, 1976-1979;

Counsellor, Embassy, Kuwait, 1979-1983

BALFOUR-PAUL, H. GLENCAIRN,

C.M.G.(1917-2008): Political Agent, Dubai, 1964-1966; Deputy Political

Resident, Persian Gulf, 1966-1968; Ambassador to

Iraq, 1969-1971; Ambassador to Jordan, 1972-

1975; Ambassador to Tunisia, 1975-1977

BALL, ARTHUR B., O.B.E.

(1923-2008): Commercial Counsellor, Turkey, 1975-1978; Consul-

General, Perth, Australia, 1978-1980

BALL, FRANCIS L.: Secretary of Legation, Argentina, 1839-1845

BALLANTYNE, ALEXANDER H.,

C.V.O., C.B.E. (1911-1983): Commercial Counsellor, Denmark, 1956-1960;

Commercial Counsellor, Turkey, 1960-1964; Consul-

General, Frankfurt, 1964-1969

BALLENTYNE, DONALD F.,

C.M.G.(1929- Commercial Counsellor, the Netherlands, 1974-1978;

Commercial Counsellor, Federal Republic of

Germany, 1978-1981; Counsellor, Embassy, German

Democratic Republic, 1982-1984; Consul-General, Los

Angeles, 1985-1989

BAMFORD, ALEXANDER: Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Denmark, 2014-

BANDINEL, JAMES

(1783-1849): Senior Clerk, Foreign Office, 1822-1845, and Superintendent of

Slave Trade Department, 1824-1845


34

BANKHEAD, CHARLES

(1797-1859): Secretary of Legation, U.S.A., 1826-1838; Secretary of

Embassy, Turkey, 1838-1843; Minister to Mexico,

1843-1852

BANKS, ALAN G.(1911-2000): Consul-General, Alexandria, 1967-1971

BANKS, SIMON J. (1966- Deputy High Commissioner, Tanzania, 2000-200

BARBER, LESLIE C.S., M.B.E.

(1894-1968): Consul-General, Boston, 1950-1954

BARCLAY, CHRISTOPHER F.R.,

C.M.G.(1919-2015): Head of Information Research Department, Foreign

Office, 1962-1966; Head of Personnel(Training and

General) Department, Foreign and Commonwealth

Office, 1967-1969

BARCLAY, Rt. Hon. SIR

COLVILLE A. de R., K.C.M.G.,

C.B., C.B.E., M.V.O.

(1869-1929): Secretary of Embassy(Counsellor), U.S.A., 1913-1918;

Minister, Embassy, U.S.A., 1918-1919; Minister to

Sweden, 1919-1924; Minister to Hungary, 1924-1928;

Ambassador to Portugal, 1928-1929

BARCLAY, SIR GEORGE H.,

K.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., C.V.O.

(1862-1921): Secretary of Legation/Embassy(Counsellor), Japan, 1902-1906;

Secretary of Embassy(Counsellor), Turkey, 1906-1908;

Minister to Persia, 1908-1912; Minister to Romania,1912-1920


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BARCLAY, SIR RODERICK E.,

G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.

(1909-1996): Head of Personnel Department, Foreign Office, 1946-1949;

Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary,

1949-1951; Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign

Affairs(Consular and Latin America), 1951-1953;

Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Chief

Clerk, 1953-1956; Ambassador to Denmark, 1956-1960;

Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1960-1963;

Ambassador to Belgium, 1963-1969

BARDER, SIR BRIAN L., K.C.M.G.

(1934-2017): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, High Commission,

Australia, 1973-1977; Head of Central and Southern

Africa/Southern Africa Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1978-1982; Ambassador to

Ethiopia, 1982-1986; Ambassador to Poland,

1986-1989; High Commissioner to Nigeria, 1988-1991;

High Commissioner to Australia, 1991-1994

BARFF, STAFFORD E.D., O.B.E.

(1909-1976): Consul-General, New Orleans, 1964-1969

BARING, Hon. SIR EVELYN,

K.G., G.C.M.G., C.V.O.

(later lst LORD HOWICK OF

GLENDALE) (1903-1973): Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 1942-1944; High

Commissioner to South Africa, 1944-1951; Governor of

Kenya, 1952-1959

BARING, WALTER

(1844-1915): Secretary of Legation, Persia, 1879-1882; Secretary of Legation,

Japan, 1882(did not proceed); Secretary of Legation, Portugal,

1882-1885; Secretary of Legation, Greece, 1885-1886; Charge

dAffaires, Montenegro, 1886-1893; Minister Resident,

Uruguay, 1893-1906


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BARKER, THOMAS C.(1928- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Venezuela,

1969-1971; Head of Information Research


1971-1975; Assistant Under-Secretary, Northern

Ireland Office, 1975-1976

BARKER, SIR WILLIAM,

K.C.M.G., O.B.E.(1909-1992): Counsellor, Embassy, U.S.S.R., 1948-1950; Counsellor,

Embassy, Norway, 1951-1954; Consul-General,

Boston, 1954-1955; Counsellor, Embassy, U.S.A.,

1955-1960; Minister, U.S.S.R., 1960-1963; Assistant

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs(Information

Research), 1965-1966; Ambassador to Czechoslovakia,

1966-1968

BARKLAMB, PETER R.(1951- Consul-General, Amsterdam, 2002-2003

BARLTROP, ROGER A.R., C.M.G.,

C.V.O.(1930-2009): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Ethiopia,

1973-1977; Head of Commonwealth Coordination


1977-1982; High Commissioner/Ambassador to

Fiji, 1982-1989

BARNARD, CHARLES

TOWNSHEND(17 -1878): Secretary of Legation, Saxony, 1824-1866; Charge

dAffaires, Saxe-Coburg Gotha, 1842-1878

BARNES, SIR E. JOHN W.,

K.C.M.G., M.B.E.(1917-1992): Head of Western Organizations Department, Foreign Office,

1962-1969; Ambassador to Israel, 1969-1972;

Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1972-1977

BARNES, RICHARD C.:

(1912-1970): Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Indonesia,

1959-1961; Counsellor, Embassy, Greece, 1962-1964

BARNES JONES, DEBORAH

E.V. (1956- Ambassador to Georgia, 2001-2004; Governor of Montserrat,

2004-2007


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BARNETT, ROBERT W.,

O.B.E.(1954- Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1994-1995; Counsellor

(Science, Technology and Environment), Embassy,

Germany, 1995-1999; Head of Science and Technology

Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2001-2002

BARNETT, ROBIN A.

C.M.G.(1958- Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Poland, 1998-2001;

Head of U.K. Visas, Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

2002-2006; Ambassador to Romania, 2006-2010;

Ambassador to Poland, 2011-2016; Ambassador to Ireland,

2016-

BARRASS, GORDON S.,

C.M.G.(1940- Assistant Under-Secretary(Assessments Staff), Cabinet Office,

1991-1993

BARRETT, EDMOND F.,

O.B.E.(1928-2011): Consul-General Bilbao, 1981-1985

BARRETT, SIR STEPHEN J.,

K.C.M.G.(1931- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Czechoslovakia,

1972-1974; Head of South-Western Europe Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1975; Principal

Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, 1975-1976;

Head of Science and Technology Department, Foreign

And Commonwealth Office, 1976-1977; Counsellor,

Embassy, Turkey, 1978-1981; Counsellor, Iran, 1981;

Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign and

Commonwealth Affairs and Director of

Communications, 1981-1984; Ambassador to

Czechoslovakia, 1985-1988; Ambassador to Poland,

1988-1991

BARRINGTON, Hon. SIR B.,

ERIC E., K.C.B.(1847-1918): Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1885-1886,

1886-1892 and 1895-1905; Assistant Under-Secretary for

Foreign Affairs, 1906-1907


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BARRINGTON, SIR NICOLAS J.,

K.C.M.G., C.V.O.(1934- Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Embassy, Japan,

1974-1976; Head of Guidance and Information Policy/

Information Policy Department, Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, 1976-1978; Counsellor,

Embassy, Egypt, 1978-1981; Minister, Iran, 1981-1983;

Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign and

Commonwealth Affairs(Public Departments),

1984-1987; Ambassador/High Commissioner to

Pakistan, 1987-1994

BARRING

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