Duncan Wilson

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Sir Archibald Duncan Wilson , GCMG (born August 12, 1911 ; † September 20, 1983 ) was a British non-fiction author and diplomat who was ambassador to Yugoslavia between 1957 and 1960 and ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1968 . In addition, between 1971 and 1980 he was a Master and thus head of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge .

Life

Archibald Duncan Wilson, son of Archibald Edward Wilson and Ethel Mary Schuster, was the older brother of the philosopher and university professor Helen Mary Wilson , later Baroness Warnock, of Weeke in the City of Winchester. He himself began after the visit of the renowned founded in 1382 Winchester College studying classical studies at Balliol College of Oxford University . After a first application for the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) of the Foreign Office ( Foreign Office ) was rejected in 1936, he first worked like his father as a teacher at Winchester College and was subsequently deputy curator of the British Museum in 1937 . During the Second World War he was still able to join the diplomatic service of the Foreign Ministry and, after various posts after the end of the war, between 1949 and 1951 he was head of the Department for Economic Relations with Germany and Industry (Head of German Commercial Relations and Industry Department, Foreign Office). .

Wilson was then from 1951 to 1953 Counselor at the Embassy in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and then from 1953 to 1955 Head of the Economic Relations Department in the Foreign Office . In 1955 he was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services . Subsequently, he served from 1955 to 1957 at the State Department as director of research and librarian (Director of Research and Librarian, Foreign Office) , before 1957-1959 Chargé (Charge d'Affaires) to the Embassy in the People's Republic of China was.

After his return Duncan Wilson held from 1960 to 1964 at the State Department the post of assistants in Education Undersecretary for Eastern Europe , the United Nations and Disarmament (Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Eastern Europe, United Nations Organization and Disarmament)) as the successor to Michael Creswell was He was then ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1964 and remained in this post until he was replaced by Terence Garvey in 1968. He was beaten on January 1, 1965 to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that he henceforth the name suffix "Sir".

Most recently, Sir Duncan Wilson succeeded Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1968 and held this post until he left the diplomatic service in 1971, whereupon John Killick succeeded him. On June 12, 1971, he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). After retiring from the diplomatic service, he served as a master's degree between 1971 and 1980 and thus headed the Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge . His marriage to Elizabeth Anne Martin Fleming in 1937 resulted in a son and two daughters.

Publications

In addition to his diplomatic career, Wilson has also authored several non-fiction books and biographies of personalities such as Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Leonard Sidney Woolf , his publications include:

  • Germany's "New Order" , Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1941
  • The life and times of Vuk Stefanović Karadzić , Oxford, Clarendon, 1970, reprint 2007, ISBN 978-3-939659-67-9
  • Leonard Woolf: A political biography , Powell, 1978, ISBN 0-312-48001-6
  • Tito's Yugoslavia , 1979

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 819
  2. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 984
  3. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 997
  4. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 655
  5. ↑ . A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 924
  6. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 818
  7. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  8. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 809
  9. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Duncan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Archibald Duncan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat, non-fiction author and administrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1911
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1983