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  • 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 (John) Oliver, GCMG GCVO DSC (1921-2009)

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    Diplomat. Royal Navy 1941-45; Entered FO 1945; Vice-Consul, New York, 1946; 3rd Secretary, Bucharest, 1948; 2nd Secretary, Singapore, 1950; FO 1952 (Western and Southern Departments); First Secretary, Berlin, 1954-57, South Africa, 1957-59; Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1964-66; Ambassador to Denmark, 1966-69; Seconded to Government of Northern Ireland, 1969-70; Chief Clerk, Foreign and Commonwealth…

  • WADE-GERY, Sir Robert Lucian, KCMG (1929-2015)

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    Diplomat. Joined HM Foreign (now Diplomatic) Service, 1951; FO (Economic Relations Department), 1951-54; Bonn, 1954-57; FO (Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary, later Southern Department), 1957-60; Tel Aviv, 1961-64; FO (Planning Staff), 1964-67; Saigon, 1967-68; Cabinet Office (Secretary to Duncan Committee), 1968-69; Counsellor 1969; on loan to Bank of England, 1969; Head of Financial Policy and…

  • TONKIN, Derek, CMG (b. 1929)

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    Diplomat. HM Forces, 1948-49; FO, 1952; Warsaw, 1955; Bangkok, 1957; Phnom Penh, 1961; FO, 1963; Warsaw, 1966; Wellington, 1968; FCO, 1972; East Berlin, 1976; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1980-82; Minister, Pretoria, 1983-86; Ambassador to Thailand, and concurrently to Laos, 1986-89.Interviewed 2000.

  • TALLBOYS, Richard Gilbert, CMG OBE (1931-2013)

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    HM Diplomatic Service, 1968-88: First Secretary i/c Brasilia, 1969; Head of Chancery, Phnom Penh, 1972 (Chargé d’Affaires 1972, 1973); FO, 1973; Counsellor Commercial, Seoul, 1976-80 (Chargé d’Affaires 1977, 1978, 1979); Consul-General, Houston, 1980-85; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1985-87.Memoir.

  • MORRIS, Warwick (b. 1948)

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    Entered Diplomatic Service, 1969; Third Secretary, Paris, 1972–74; Korean language training, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1975–76; Second Secretary, Seoul, 1977–79; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1979–83; First Secretary, 1982; First Secretary (Commercial), Mexico City, 1984–87; Head of Chancery, Seoul, 1988–91; Deputy Head, Far Eastern Department, FCO, 1991–93; Counsellor, 1993, Head, 1994, Permanent Under Secretary’s Department, FCO; Economic…

  • MARGETSON, Sir John William Denys, KCMG (1927-2020)

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    Lieutenant, Life Guards, 1947-49. Colonial Service, District Officer, Tanganyika, 1951-60 (Private Secretary to Governor, Sir Edward Twining, 1956-57); entered Foreign Service, 1960; The Hague, 1962-64; speech writer to Foreign Secretary, George Brown, 1966-68; Head of Chancery, Saigon, 1968-70; Counsellor 1971, seconded to Cabinet Secretariat, 1971-74; Head of Chancery, UK Delegation to NATO, 1974-78; Ambassador to…

  • MAITLAND, Sir Donald James Dundas, GCMG OBE (1922-2010)

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    Diplomat. Director, Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon, 1956-60; Counsellor, Egypt, 1963-5; Head of News Department, 1965; Ambassador to Libya, 1969-70; Press Secretary, Prime Minister’s Private Office, 1970-3; UK Permanent Representative, United Nations, 1973-4; Ambassador to EEC, 1975-9; Permanent Under-Secretary, Department of Energy, 1980-2.Interviewed 1997.

  • HUTSON, John Whiteford, OBE (b. 1927)

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    Diplomat. Consul (Commercial), San Francisco, 1963-67; Head of Chancery, Bulgaria, 1967-69; Counsellor (Commercial), Baghdad, 1971-72, Moscow, 1976-79; Consul-General, Frankfurt, 1979-83, Casablanca, 1984-87.Interviewed 1996.

  • GORDON, Robert Anthony Eagleson, CMG OBE (b. 1952)

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    Gordon’s diplomatic career included: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1973; Second Secretary, Warsaw, 1975–77; First Secretary, Santiago, 1978–83; FCO, 1983–87; First Secretary, UK Delegation to OECD, Paris, 1987–92; Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Warsaw, 1992–95; Ambassador to Burma (Union of Myanmar), 1995–99; Head, South East Asia Department, FCO, 1999–2003; Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of…