A Directory of British Diplomats: 1900-2011
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1 A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS: 1900-2011 CONTENTS : Foreign Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office: pages 3-68 Diplomatic Missions Overseas(alphabetically by country): pages 69-166 Consul-Generals(alphabetically by city): pages 167-206 Introduction: These lists are a companion to ‘British Ambassadors and High Commissioners 1880- 2010’ on this site. The Notes provided on page 1 of that document apply here also. The principal source used has again been the annual Foreign Office List(from 1965 the Diplomatic Service List). As noted previously however publication ceased in 2006. I have not been able to date to access copies prior to 1917. Additionally I have made extensive use of both ‘Whitaker’s Almanack’ and ‘Who’s Who’. The Foreign Office List contains lists of previous British Ambassadors abroad. Prior to around 1950 the List also included lists of previous British Consul-Generals. To my knowledge what is attempted in this Directory has not previously appeared in print or online. The lists included below involve a degree of selection on my part and may appear, to an extent, to be somewhat arbitrary. I have however tried to include most of the Ministers within British Embassies and High Commissions. The research involved in compiling these lists has been of exceptional difficulty and there will without any doubt be some mistakes and inaccuracies. It is however my hope that sharing the information I have been able to accumulate will be of some use to others. I am only too happy to be corrected where I am in error. 2 Notes: 1. Deputy Under-Secretaries and Assistant Under-Secretaries. It has been particularly difficult to identify the specific departmental/geographical responsibilities of the holders of these posts prior to the Second World War. Far fewer officials at those grades existed before 1939 and their responsibilities were therefore usually much wider in scope. I have simply listed Deputy and Assistant Under-Secretaries up to 1945 without including specific responsibilities. 2. Foreign Office Heads of Department. I have included many-but not all-of the departmental heads within the Foreign Office up to 1965 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office thereafter. Over the past ten to fifteen years there have been a very considerable number of changes within the FCO to the names and functions of most departments reflecting changes in the international situation and in management practice. I have not attempted to reflect these changes and the departmental listings do not, by and large, extend beyond the mid 1990s. 3. Counsellors. I have included in these lists as far as possible those Counsellors who could be identified as the ‘senior’ Counsellors within an Embassy or High Commission. In most cases these individuals held the additional post of Head of Chancery or, more recently, Deputy Head of Mission or Counsellor(Political). I have also attempted to provide lists of the Commercial Counsellors in at least the major British diplomatic missions abroad. 4. Consul-Generals. The choice here may well appear to be somewhat arbitrary but those cities include most of the major locations of British Consul-Generals. Deputy High Commissioners based in major cities within Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria and Pakistan are included in this section. 5. Honours and decorations are given for postholders but these are not necessarily those held whilst the individual was in post but are the ‘final’ honours awarded to the postholder. It would have required a great deal more time and effort to identify which honours each individual held whilst in each particular post. 6. Reference should be made to the companion list of British Ambassadors and High Commissioners for detail of periods during which no diplomatic relations existed with a particular state. 3 FOREIGN OFFICE; from 1965 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE Index: Assistant Under-Secretaries: pages 14-28 Deputy Under-Secretaries: pages 8-13 Heads of Department: Accommodation and Services (see Overseas Estate) Africa: page 36 American/America and Africa: page 39 Arabian: page 35 Arms Control and Disarmament (see Atomic Energy and Disarmament) Atlantic and Indian Ocean: page 45 Atomic Energy and Disarmament: page 48 Aviation and Telecommunications/ Aviation and Maritime/Aviation, Maritime, Science and Energy (see Maritime, Aviation and Environment) Aviation, Marine and Telecommunications: page 59 Caribbean (see Mexico and Caribbean) Central: page 30 Central and North-West Europe (see Western) Central Africa/Central and Southern Africa: page 38 Central Europe (see Eastern Europe and Soviet) China and Hong Kong (see Far East) China and Korea (see Far East) Claims: page 65 Commodities: page 59 4 Commonwealth Liaison/Commonwealth Co-ordination: page 60 Communications: page 64 Consular: page 63 Cultural Relations: page 61 Defence: page 47 Dependent Territories General (see Gibraltar and South Atlantic) Disarmament (see Atomic Energy and Disarmament) Dominions Information/Dominions Intelligence (see Commonwealth Liaison) East Africa: page 37 Eastern: page 34 (and see under Soviet) Eastern Europe and Soviet/Eastern Europe: page 31 Economic Relations/Economic Policy: page 55 Egyptian: page 35 Energy: page 58 Energy, Science and Space: page 58 Environment, Science and Energy (see Energy, Science and Space) Equatorial Africa (see East Africa) Establishment and Organization: page 51 European Economic Organizations (see European Integration(External)) European Integration(External)/European Community(External): page 56 European Integration(Internal)/European Community(Internal): page 57 Export Promotion (see Trade Relations and Exports) Falkland Islands (see South Atlantic and Antarctic) Far East/Far East and Pacific: page 42 Finance: page 66 Financial Policy and Aid/Financial Relations (see Economic Policy) General: page 54 5 Gibraltar and South Atlantic/Gibraltar and General: page 41 Guidance and Information Policy (see Information Policy) Hong Kong/Hong Kong and Indian Ocean/Hong Kong and General: page 44 Industry, Science and Energy (see Energy, Science and Space) Information Administration/Information Executive/Information: page 62 Information Policy: page 61 Information Research: page 62 Information Services: page 63 International Organizations (see United Nations) Ireland, Republic of: page 33 Japan and Pacific: page 43 Latin American (see South American and also Mexico and Caribbean) Latin American and Caribbean (see South American) League of Nations and Western (see Western) Levant: page 35 Marine and Transport (see Aviation, Marine and Telecommunications) Maritime and General (see Aviation, Marine and Telecommunications) Maritime, Aviation and Environment: page 59 Mexico and Caribbean: page 40 Middle East: page 36 Migration and Visa: page 65 Mutual Aid: page 55 Nationality, Treaty and Claims (see Treaty) Near-Eastern (see Eastern) 6 Near East and North Africa (see Eastern) News: page 50 Non-Proliferation and Defence/Non-Proliferation (see Defence) North African (see Africa) North American/North American and Caribbean (see American) North and East African (see Africa) Northern: page 30 Oil (see Energy) Overseas Estate: page 66 Overseas Information (see Information Administration) Pacific Dependent Territories: page 45 Permanent Under-Secretary’s: page 49 Personnel/ Personnel(Training and General): page 52 Personnel Operations/Personnel Management: page 52 Personnel Policy: page 53 Personnel Services (see Establishment and Organization) Planning/ Policy Planning Staff: page 51 Rhodesia/Rhodesia(Political): page 38 Science and Technology (see Energy, Science and Space) Scientific Relations (see Energy, Science and Space) Security: page 53 Services’ Liaison (see Permanent Under-Secretary’s) South American: page 40 South Asia: page 44 South Atlantic and Antarctic: page 45 South Pacific (see Pacific Dependent Territories) South-East Asia: page 43 South-West Pacific: page 45 7 Southern/Southern Europe: page 32 Southern Africa: page 38 Soviet/Eastern: page 31 Trade Relations and Exports: page 57 Training (see Personnel) Treaty/Treaty and Nationality: page 64 United Nations/United Nations(Political): page 46 United Nations(Economic and Social): page 46 War (see Western) West Africa/West and Central Africa: page 37 West Indies/West Indies and Atlantic: page 41 Western/Western and Southern/Western Europe: page 29 Western Organizations: page 47 Whitehall Liaison (see Permanent Under-Secretary’s) Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary: page 67 Private Secretary(Foreign Affairs) to Prime Minister: page 68 8 Deputy Under-Secretary of State( up to 1945): Sir Victor A.A.H. Wellesley, K.C.M.G., C.B.: 1925-1936 Sir C. Hubert Montgomery, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B.: 1930-1933 Sir Lancelot Oliphant, K.C.M.G., C.B.: 1936-1939 Rt.Hon.Sir Alexander G.M.Cadogan,O.M., G.C.M.G., K.C.B.: 1936-1938 Sir Orme G. Sargent, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.: 1939-1944 Sir David J. Montagu-Douglas-Scott, K.C.M.G., O.B.E.: 1944-1947 Deputy Under-Secretary(Political Director/Europe ): L Lord Harvey of Tasburgh, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., CB.: 1946-1947 Sir Pierson J. Dixon, G.C.M.G., C.B.: 1950-1952 Sir John G. Ward, G.C.M.G.: 1954-1956 Sir D’A. Patrick Reilly, G.C.M.G., O.B.E.: 1956-1957 Sir William G. Hayter, K.C.M.G.: 1957-1958 Sir C.A. Evelyn Shuckburgh, G.C.M.G., C.B.: 1960-1962 Viscount Hood, G.C.M.G.; 1962-1969 Lord Brimelow, G.C.M.G., O.B.E.: 1969-1973 Sir John E. Killick, G.C.M.G.: 1973-1975 Sir Alan H.Campbell,G.C.M.G.: 1975-1976 Sir Reginald A. Hibbert, G.C.M.G.: 1976-1979 Sir Julian L. Bullard, G.C.M.G.: 1979-1984 Sir Derek M.D. Thomas, K.C.M.G.: 1984-1987 Sir M.John E.Fretwell,G.C.M.G.: 1987-1990 Sir P.John Weston,K.C.M.G.: 1990-1991 Sir Leonard V.Appleyard,K.C.M.G.: 1991-1994 Rt. Hon. Baroness Neville -Jones,D.C.M.G.: 1994-1996 Sir Jeremy Q.Greenstock,G.C.M.G.: 1996-1998 Sir Emry Jones Parry,G.C.M.G.: 1998-2001 Sir Peter F.