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  • EAST, Kenneth Arthur, CMG (1921-2014)

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    After serving in the Armed Forces, 1942-46, East’s career included: India Office/Commonwealth Relations Office, 1946-50; Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State; First Secretary: Ottawa, 1950-53; Colombo, 1956-60; Head of East and General Africa Department, CRO, 1961-63; Head of Personnel Department, CRO, 1963-64; Counsellor, Diplomatic Service Administration, 1965; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Oslo, 1965-70; Minister,…

  • VARCOE, Jeremy Richard Lovering Grosvenor, CMG (b. 1937)

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    Colonial Service: District Officer, Swaziland, 1962–65. Called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn, 1966; Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham, 1967–70; joined HM Diplomatic Service, 1970; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1970–72; Deputy Secretary General, Pearce Commission on Rhodesian Opinion, 1972; First Secretary, Ankara, 1972–74, Lusaka, 1974–78; FCO, 1978–79; Counsellor, Kuala Lumpur, 1979–82; Head of Southern African…

  • PARSONS, Sir Richard, KCMG (1928-2016)

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    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.

  • LUCAS, Ivor Thomas Mark, CMG (1927-2018)

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    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…

  • HIGGINS, Desmond (b. 1930)

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    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…

  • HAWLEY, Sir Donald, KCMG MBE (1921-2008)

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    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;…

  • DONALDSON, Brian (b. c 1945)

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    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;…

  • DOBLE, Denis Henry (b. 1936)

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    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…

  • DEAN, Cecil Roy (1927-2019)

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    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…

  • BROWN, Sir Mervyn, KCMG OBE (b. 1923)

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    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.