Cecil Cuthbert Parrott

Sir Cecil Cuthbert Parrott KCMG , OBE (born January 29, 1909 , † June 23, 1984 ) was a British diplomat , translator , writer and scholar .

Parrott studied at Peterhouse College of the University of Cambridge , became a teacher and entered 1939 in the Foreign Service. From 1960 to 1966 he was ambassador to Prague . After retiring , he became a professor of Russian and Soviet studies and later professor of Central and South Eastern European Studies and director of the Comenius Center at Lancaster University . Parrott translated works by Jaroslav Hašek , including The Good Soldier Schwejk . He wrote The Bad Bohemian , a biography of Hašek, and Jaroslav Hašek. A Study of Švejk and the Short Stories , also a two-volume autobiography, The Tightrope and The Serpent .

Parrott was inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George as a Companion on January 1, 1964 . He was later promoted to Knight Commander .

Individual evidence

^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 43200, HMSO, London, June 7, 1951, p. 5 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).

Web links

Propagandist document Vysoká hra (1977), i.e. about Cecil Parrott (in Czech, first mentioned in time 4:54, available online)

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Francis Gray	British ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1960–1966	William Barker

personal data
SURNAME	Parrott, Cecil Cuthbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British diplomat, translator, writer and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1909
DATE OF DEATH	June 23, 1984

[1] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 43200, HMSO, London, June 7, 1951, p. 5 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).