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  • BRYAN, Margaret, CMG (b. 1929)

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    Internment in Shanghai during Second World War; News Information Department, BBC, c. 1952-53; Assistant in HM Consulate, Douala, c. 1953-55; Journalist, Windhoek Advertiser, c 1957-61; Second, later First, Secretary, Information Research Department, FCO, 1962–80; Head of Chancery and Consul, Kinshasa, 1980–83; Counsellor, Havana, 1983–86; Ambassador to Panama, 1986–89; Research Department, FCO, 1989-94; Sensitivity Review Team,…

  • URE, Sir John Burns, KCMG LVO (1931-2023)

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    Joined Foreign Service, 1956; 3rd Secretary and Private Secretary to Ambassador, Moscow, 1957–59; Resident Clerk, FO, 1960–61; 2nd Secretary, Leopoldville, 1962–63; FO, 1964–66; 1st Secretary (Commercial), Santiago, 1967–70; FCO, 1971–72; Counsellor, and intermittently Chargé d’Affaires, Lisbon, 1972–77; Head of South America Department, FCO, 1977–79; Ambassador to Cuba, 1979–81; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Americas,…

  • GORDON, Pamela (b. 1951)

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    Pamela Gordon (née Taylor) joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1973, and initially her career included: Rhodesia Department, FCO, 1973-75; 3rd Secretary, Political and Press, Havana, 1975-77; 3rd Secretary, UKRep, Brussels, 1977-78.  Upon her marriage to her fellow diplomat Robert Gordon in 1978, she took special unpaid leave while her husband was stationed in…

  • WRIGHT, Sir Stephen, KCMG (b. 1946)

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    Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Rhodesia Political Department, 1968; Havana, 1969-71; Civil Service College, 1971-72; FCO, Trade Policy Department, then Eastern European and Soviet Department, 1972-75; British Information Services, New York, 1975-80; UK Permanent Representative to European Community, Brussels, 1980-84; FCO, Energy, Science, and Space Department, 1984-85; seconded to Cabinet Office, Deputy Chief of Assessments Staff,…

  • FEARN, Sir (Patrick) Robin, KCMG (1934-2006)

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    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,…

  • BYATT, Ronald Archer Campbell (1930-2019)

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    RNVR, 1949-50; Colonial Service, Nyasaland, 1955-58; Foreign Service, 1959; Havana, 1961-63; FO, 1963-66; UK Mission to United Nations, New York, 1966; Kampala, 1970; Head of Rhodesia Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1972-75; Visiting Fellow, Glasgow University, 1975-76; Rhodesia Conference, Geneva, 1976; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, UK Mission to United Nations, New York, 1977-79; Assistant…