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  • DENMAN, Sir Roy, KCB CMG (1924-2006)

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    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;…

  • DAY, Sir Derek Malcolm, KCMG (1927-2015)

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    Diplomat. Counsellor, Cyprus, 1972; Ambassador to Ethiopia, 1975-78; High Commissioner, Canada, 1984-87.Interviewed 1996.

  • CROWE, Sir Brian, KCMG (1938-2020)

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    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…

  • CROSS, “Jasper” James Richard, CMG (1921-2021)

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    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. The transcript also contains a copy of a debriefing interview between…

  • CHARLTON, Alan, CMG CVO (b. 1952)

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    After a brief spell as a teacher at Gesamtschule, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1975–77, Charlton joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1978, and his diplomatic career included: West Africa Department, FCO, 1978–79; Amman, 1981–84; Near East and North Africa Department, FCO, 1984–86; British Military Government, Berlin, 1986–90; Deputy Chief, Assessments Staff, Cabinet Office, 1991–93; Head, Eastern…

  • CARRICK, Sir Roger John, KCMG LVO (b. 1937)

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    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,…

  • CARLESS, Hugh Michael, CMG (1925-2011)

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    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…

  • CAPE, Donald Paul Montagu Stewart, CMG CBE (1923-2014)

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    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.

  • CAMPBELL, Sir Alan Hugh, GCMG (1919-2007)

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    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.

  • 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…