Alfred Stanley Fordham

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Sir Alfred Stanley Fordham , KBE , CMG (born September 2, 1907 in Melbourn Bury , Cambridgeshire or possibly September 2, 1897 , † April 6, 1981 in Royston , Hertfordshire ) was a British diplomat .

Life

His parents were Constance Augusta Stanley and Alfred Russell Fordham of Melbourne Bury JP, MA Cambridge, Barrister -at-Law.

Fordham went to school in Eton and studied at Trinity College , Cambridge . In 1930 he joined the foreign service. He was Vice-Consul in San Francisco in 1932 . Other stations in his career were Lima (1933–1936), Guatemala (1936–1943), Los Angeles (1943–1944), San Salvador (1944–1945) and St. Louis (1945–1948). 1949-1951 he was Head of the American Department in the Foreign Office. 1951–1952 he was Counselor ( Counselor ) in Warsaw, 1952–1954 in the same function in Stockholm, 1954 Minister ( Envoy ) in Buenos Aires. In 1956 he became the British ambassador to Havana . He repeatedly admitted that Fidel Castro's victory in early 1959 surprised him. In 1960 he became ambassador to Colombia.

Fordham had been married to Isabel Ward, who came from an important Anglo-Peruvian family, since 1934. The couple had two children.

He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely from 1973 until the county was dissolved in 1974 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Janet Podell (Ed.): The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-312-03876-3 , pp. 245 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ A b Sir (Alfred) Stanley Fordham (1907-1981), Ambassador to Colombia and Cuba. Retrieved November 2, 2011 .
  3. ^ Hugh Thomas: The Cuban Revolution . Harper & Row, New York 1977, ISBN 0-06-014277-4 , pp. 205 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ A b Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval Staff: The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy. London 1911. Reprint: Heritage Books, Bowie 2001, ISBN 0-7884-1872-6 , p. 200 ( limited preview in Google book search). The date of birth seems unlikely, since the marriage year of the parents is given as 1900.
  5. ↑ a b The international who's who. Twenty-sixth edition. 1962-1963. Europa Publications, London 1963, pp. 329-330 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office (Ed.): The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book . Harrison and Sons, 1963, p. 3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  7. ↑ Ronald Hilton: Hispanic American report, Volume 12. Stanford University. Hispanic American Studies, 1959, p. 27 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ^ The London Gazette: no. 45941, p. 4153. March 30, 1973 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
Wilfred Hansford Gallienne British ambassador to Cuba
1956 to 1960 		Herbert Stanley Marchant
Edgar James Joint British ambassador to Colombia
1960 to 1964 		George Edgar Vaughan
Edwin Harrison-Morris High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
1973 to 1974
personal data
SURNAME Fordham, Alfred Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourn Bury , Cambridgeshire
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1981
Place of death Royston , Hertfordshire