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  • MILES, (Frank) Stephen, CMG (1920-2013)

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    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;…

  • LYNE, Sir Roderic Michael John, KBE CMG (b. 1948)

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    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,…

  • GRAHAM, Sir John Alexander Noble, 4th bt, GCMG (1926-2019)

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    Foreign Service, 1950; MECAS, 1951; Third Secretary, Bahrain 1951, Kuwait 1952 and Amman, 1953; Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1954-57; First Secretary, Belgrade, 1957-60, Benghazi, 1960-61; Foreign Office (Personnel Department and Permanent Under-Secretary’s Department), 1961-66; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Kuwait, 1966-69; Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, 1969-72; Counsellor…

  • FENN, Sir Nicholas, GCMG (1936-2016)

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    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…

  • 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.

  • DALES, Sir Richard Nigel, KCVO CMG (b. 1942)

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    Diplomat. Dales entered the Foreign Office in 1964, and in his diplomatic career served in the following posts: 3rd Secretary, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1965–67; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968–70; 2nd Secretary, later 1st Secretary, Copenhagen, 1970–73; FCO, 1973; Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, 1974–77; 1st Secretary, Head of Chancery and Consul, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1977–81; FCO,…

  • CHAPLIN, Edward Graham Mellish, CMG OBE (b. 1951)

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    Entered Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1973; Muscat, 1975–77; Brussels, 1977–78; Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris, 1978–79; on secondment to Civil Service Department as Private Secretary to Lord President of the Council and Leader of House of Lords, 1980–81; FCO, 1981–84; Head of Chancery, Tehran, 1985–87; FCO, 1987–89; on secondment to Price Waterhouse Management Consultants, 1990–92; Deputy…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • ALLINSON, Sir Walter Leonard, KCVO CMG (1926-2022)

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    Diplomat. Assistant Principal, Ministry of Fuel and Power (Petroleum Division), 1947–48; Assistant Principal, later Principal, Ministry of Education, 1948–58 (Assistant Private Secretary to Minister, 1953–54); transferred to Commonwealth Relations Office, 1958; First Secretary in Lahore and Karachi, 1960–62, Madras and New Delhi, 1963–66; Counsellor and Head of Political Affairs Department, March 1968; Deputy Head, later…