Alan Campbell (diplomat)

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Sir Alan Hugh Campbell , GCMG ( July 1, 1919 - October 7, 2007 in London ) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Ethiopia from 1969 to 1972 and ambassador to Italy between 1976 and 1979 .

Life

Alan Hugh Campbell, son of the businessman Hugh Campbell and his wife Ethel Warren Campbell, grew up in Kingsbridge and attended the Sherborne School, founded in 1550, from 1932 to 1937 . He then completed a degree at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge and then did military service in the Suffolk Regiment , in the Devonshire Regiment and most recently in the SOE ( Special Operations Executive ) during the Second World War between 1940 and 1946 . Then he joined in 1946 in the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ) . In the following years he found numerous uses at diplomatic missions abroad and in the Foreign Ministry. In 1946 he was for a short time Third Secretary in Support of the Special Mission of Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn in Singapore, and in 1950 he became the private secretary of Sir William Strang , Permanent Undersecretary of State for the State Department. He then worked for the Embassy in Italy in 1952 and the Embassy in the People's Republic of China in 1955 , before he was Counselor and Chancellor of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York City between 1961 and 1965 . In 1964 he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services .

Campbell then served as Head of the Western Europe Division in the Foreign Office from 1965 and 1967 and as Counselor and Chancellor of the Embassy in France between 1967 and 1969 . In 1969 he replaced Thomas Eardley Bromley as ambassador to Ethiopia and held this post until he was replaced by Willie Morris in 1972. He then returned to the Foreign Office and was initially head of the South Africa and Rhodesia subdivision between 1972 and 1974 (Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Southern Africa and Rhodesia) and then from 1974 to 1975 Head of the Middle East Division (Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Middle East) .

Alan Campbell then assumed the post of Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Europe, between 1975 and 1976 . In 1976 he was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and has since had the addition of Sir . Most recently he took over the post of ambassador to Italy in 1976 as the successor to Sir Guy Millard and held this position until he retired in 1979, whereupon Sir Ronald Arculus succeeded him. In 1979 he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG).

After his retirement, Sir Alan Campbell was an advisor to Rolls-Royce , director of the National Westminster Bank and from 1987 to 1994 chairman of the British School at Rome . From 1973 to 1987 he was also a member of the board of directors of the Sherborne School and a member of the advisory board of the London Philharmonic Orchestra . From his 1947 marriage with Margaret Taylor, who died in 1999, three daughters were born.

publication

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 899
  2. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 950
  3. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, pp.
  4. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 683
  5. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 932
  6. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 917
  7. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 913
  8. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 744
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Alan Hugh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1919
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2007
Place of death London