ELLIOTT, Mark
BDOHP Biographical Details and Interview Index ELLIOTT, Mark (born 16 May 1939) CMG 1988 Career (with, on right, relevant pages in interview) HM Forces (Intelligence Corps), 1957–59 pp 26-32 Foreign Office, 1963-65 pp39-50 Tokyo, 1965-69 pp50-69 Marine and Transport Department, FCO, 1970-73 pp 70-76 Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, 1973–74 pp 76-83 First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Nicosia, 1975–77 pp 84-97 Counsellor, 1977–81, Head of Chancery, 1978–81, Tokyo pp 98-113 Head of Far Eastern Department, FCO, 1981–85 pp 114-124 Under-Secretary on secondment to Northern Ireland Office, 1985–88 pp 125-135 Ambassador to Israel, 1988–92 pp 136-157 Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1992–94 pp 158-172 Ambassador to Norway, 1994–98 pp 173-192 I - 1 Copyright: Mark Elliott I - THE FAMILY The Elliotts are a huge tribe, at least if one judges by the national telephone directories. There is a fair concentration of them at the western end of the England/Scotland Border country, where they boast an Elliott (or Elliot, the preferred local version) tartan, and are commemorated in Tullie House Museum in Carlisle as among the most loathed and vicious of the clans of Border reivers. But my father’s family can trace no connection with Scotland. There is a family tradition of some sort of Huguenot origin, but this is not supported by any evidence. However there is abundant evidence of Elliotts in the Wisborough Green area of Sussex, dating back at least to 1454.
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