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A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS

Copyright COLIN MACKIE 2013 1 Updated 19 July 2020 This DIRECTORY contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government License A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS CONTENTS: Preface: pages 3-4 Introduction: pages 5-7 Select Bibliography: page 8 Notes: Sections A and B: pages 9-10 Section A: Alphabetical DIRECTORY of DIPLOMATS , 1789-2005: pages 11-553 Section B: Diplomatic Missions Overseas, 1789-: pages 554-903 I: Commonwealth Countries: pages 554-620 II: Foreign Countries: pages 621-886 III: International Organizations: pages 887-903 Notes: Sections C and D: page 904 Section C: Foreign Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1841-: pages 905-1017

Office in the later part of the twentieth century(the Dominions Office 1925-47, the Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-66 and the Commonwealth Office 1966-1968) to become the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) in 1968. Section A is an Alphabetical List of British Diplomats and their appointments from 1789 until the present.

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1 Copyright COLIN MACKIE 2013 1 Updated 19 July 2020 This DIRECTORY contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government License A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS CONTENTS: Preface: pages 3-4 Introduction: pages 5-7 Select Bibliography: page 8 Notes: Sections A and B: pages 9-10 Section A: Alphabetical DIRECTORY of DIPLOMATS , 1789-2005: pages 11-553 Section B: Diplomatic Missions Overseas, 1789-: pages 554-903 I: Commonwealth Countries: pages 554-620 II: Foreign Countries: pages 621-886 III: International Organizations: pages 887-903 Notes: Sections C and D: page 904 Section C: Foreign Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1841-: pages 905-1017 Section D: Dominions Office/Commonwealth Relations Office/ Commonwealth Office, 1925-1968: pages 1018-1035 Notes: Sections E and F: page 1036 Section E: Alphabetical DIRECTORY of Colonial Officials, 1850.

2 Page 1037-1156 Section F: Colonial Governors and Senior Officials, 1850-: pages 1157-1226 Copyright COLIN MACKIE 2013 2 Section G: Colonial Office, 1862-1966: pages 1227-1251 Section H: Alphabetical DIRECTORY of Indian Governors and India Office Officials, 1850-1947: pages 1252-1280 Section I: Indian Governors and Lieutenant-Governors, 1850-1947: pages 1281-1289 Section J: India Office, 1858-1947: pages 1290-1297 Copyright COLIN MACKIE 2013 3 PREFACE The material included in this DIRECTORY is the accumulation of decades of research.

3 I recall watching the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate and being entranced by the almost Ruritarian romanticism (as I saw it as an impressionable nine-year old) of the name of the BRITISH Minister in Montevideo-Sir Eugen Millington-Drake. My further interest in the Diplomatic Service originated from a Christmas present in 1959 of my first copy of Whitaker s Almanack . I had been fascinated for some time by the names of, for example, Roman, Byzantine and Holy Roman Emperors and had been a compulsive list-maker from a very early age.

4 As a teenager I became increasingly fascinated by the identities of members the Diplomatic Service, senior officers in the Armed Forces and other public servants and in their career progression. Over the succeeding decades, during my spare time from teaching History in Scottish secondary schools, I tried to compile and to update paper copies of lists of these individuals. With the coming of the internet and the decision to put these lists online the project has grown and developed. Not only did developments in technology afford the opportunity to more systematically revise and improve the lists it suggested the possibility that others interested in these matters would be able to access the material.

5 There is no shortage of sources for information on BRITISH Diplomatic representation overseas at the level of Heads of Mission. This project however goes beyond that level. It attempts to provide information on a wider range of positions within the Diplomatic Service, the Colonial Service and the India Office. As far as I am aware such an exercise has not been attempted before. In recent months the welcome and invaluable co-operation and support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in making copies of the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Lists available to me has ensured that the accuracy of the information provided has been much improved and has made it possible for me to extend the chronological coverage considerably.

6 The interest shown in this project by the Historians section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and by members of the Foreign and Commonwealth Association has been most gratifying. The support and encouragement I have received from the historians and from a number of ex- DIPLOMATS has enabled me to make the material much more complete, more comprehensive and more accurate than would otherwise have been the case. In particular I would like to thank Mark Bertram, a former Head of the Overseas Estate Department at the FCO, without whose interest, help in facilitating access to the current FCO and encouragement the project would never have reached its current state.

7 Copyright COLIN MACKIE 2013 4 This DIRECTORY cannot be fully comprehensive. A number of past and present organizations, departments and posts have been omitted. To those who may be aggrieved at particular omissions I can only offer my apologies. It is hoped however that the project will provide a reference tool for those engaged in research or study of BRITISH Diplomatic and Colonial History and will be of interest to those who have served or serve in the Diplomatic Service. It is obvious that I am an outsider attempting to chronicle the careers of senior DIPLOMATS and colonial officials.

8 I am immensely proud that others are now of the opinion that this project is worthy of the official endorsement of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and worth preserving as a permanent record. It will, one day, become the responsibility of others to continue to update. Colin A. Mackie, October 2013 Copyright COLIN MACKIE 2013 5 INTRODUCTION SCOPE AND STRUCTURE This DIRECTORY includes senior BRITISH DIPLOMATS , and other BRITISH civil servants working in a similar capacity, who held posts overseas and in London.

9 It is confined to individuals who worked at Counsellor/Assistant Secretary grades and above. The main part of the DIRECTORY (Sections A-D) relates to the Diplomatic Service since 1789 and to the Foreign Office since 1841. The starting point of the year 1789 in both Sections A and B was chosen because of the use made of the volume published by the Royal Historical Society: BRITISH Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Bindoff, Malcolm Smith and Webster, 1934). It includes those who served in the succession of Offices which were merged with the Foreign Office in the later part of the twentieth century(the Dominions Office 1925-47, the Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-66 and the Commonwealth Office 1966-1968) to become the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) in 1968.

10 Section A is an Alphabetical List of BRITISH DIPLOMATS and their appointments from 1789 until the present. It includes all those individuals who held posts listed in Sections B, C and D but the appointments given for each individual are by necessity only those contained in the lists in subsequent sections. Section B is an alphabetical list of countries in which diplomatic missions and subsidiary posts have been established, with successive holders of senior posts in each. Section C records the changing structure in London of the Foreign Office between 1841 and 1968 and of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since then, and lists the successive holders of the titles described.


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