Dennis Amy

Dennis Oldrieve Amy CMG OBE (* October 21, 1932 ; † 2016 ) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros between 1989 and 1992 .

Life

After attending school, Amy joined the Foreign Office in 1949 and did his National Service in the Royal Marines between 1951 and 1953 and was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant (Temporary Second Lieutenant) on July 14, 1952. promoted. After completing his military service, he returned to the Foreign Ministry in 1953 and initially worked in the finance department and later in the Egyptian department. After a use at the embassy in Lebanon was rejected because of his marriage and paternity, he worked at the embassy in Greece between 1958 and 1961 . During this time the Cyprus conflict began and he himself was most recently an accountant in the embassy office. After he was taken over into the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) , he worked from August 11, 1961 to 1964 as second secretary and vice-consul at the embassy in the Soviet Union . After previous courses at the Security Service (MI5) and Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), he was responsible for the internal security of the embassy, reporting to the ambassadors at the time, Frank Kenyon Roberts, and from 1962 Humphrey Trevelyan . On February 7, 1963 he was appointed to the higher service (Branch B of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service) with effect from March 1, 1961 . Due to a tuberculosis illness, he was dismissed from this post in September 1963 and returned in February 1964 after a six-month recovery period.

Amy returned to London a short time later, where she worked in the Home Accommodations Section and as a secretary in the Chief Clerk's Committee . He also took part in projects to merge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Ministry for the Commonwealth of Nations (Commonwealth Office) . In 1965 he became a member of the newly created Diplomatic Service Administration Office and, after recovering from hepatitis , worked there as a staffing officer. In 1966 he was transferred to the High Commissioner in Australia , where he worked as a second secretary and passport official until 1971 and was therefore part of the staff of High Commissioner Charles Hepburn Johnston . This was followed from 1971 to 1974 as First Secretary and Chancellor at the Deputy High Commission in Ibadan , Nigeria .

After his return to Great Britain in 1974 Amy's secondment to the Ministry of Commerce, where he dealt with questions of trade relations and exports until 1976, before he was Citizenship and Passport Affairs Officer in the Department of Citizenship and Contracts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1976 and 1978. Then he was from 1978 to 1983 First Secretary and Trade Officer at the Embassy in Chile and as such first Permanent Representative of the Chargé d'affaires Eric Anglin. After Anglin became chargé d'affaires at the New Zealand embassy in 1979 , Amy also succeeded him.

In 1983, Amy became Deputy Head, and then in 1985 with the rank of Counselor of the Embassy. 1985 Head of the Department of Migration and Visa Affairs in the State Department. During this time he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on January 1, 1984 . He then acted as head of the consulate general in Bordeaux from 1986 to 1989 , before he was last appointed ambassador to Madagascar in 1989. At the same time he was accredited as ambassador to the Comoros between 1991 and 1992 . On June 13, 1992, he became Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG). In 1992 he retired.

From his marriage in 1956 to Helen Rosamunde Clemens, who died on June 10, 2005, he had a son and a daughter.

Web links

Short biography and interview of the British Diplomatic Oral History Program of Churchill College of the University of Cambridge

Individual evidence

↑ London Gazette . No. 39622, HMSO, London, August 12, 1952, p. 4299 ( PDF , accessed June 13, 2016, English).
↑ London Gazette . No. 42519, HMSO, London, November 21, 1961, p. 8446 ( PDF , accessed June 13, 2016, English).
↑ London Gazette . No. 42915, HMSO, London, February 8, 1961, p. 1190 ( PDF , accessed June 13, 2016, English).
↑ The British Ambassador to Chile Reginald Secondé was recalled in 1976 after the torture of the British doctor and human rights activist Sheila Cassidy during the rule of the dictatorial regime of Augusto Pinochet became known. The ambassadorial post in Chile was then refilled with John Heath again in 1980 .
^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 49583, HMSO, London, December 31, 1983, p. 17 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).
^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 52952, HMSO, London, June 13, 1992, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).
^ Evidence of death for Helen Amy in The London Gazette, January 27, 2006

personal data
SURNAME	Amy, Dennis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Amy, Dennis Oldrieve (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1932
DATE OF DEATH	2016

[1] London Gazette . No. 39622, HMSO, London, August 12, 1952, p. 4299 ( PDF , accessed June 13, 2016, English).

[2] London Gazette . No. 42519, HMSO, London, November 21, 1961, p. 8446 ( PDF , accessed June 13, 2016, English).

[3] London Gazette . No. 42915, HMSO, London, February 8, 1961, p. 1190 ( PDF , accessed June 13, 2016, English).

[4] The British Ambassador to Chile Reginald Secondé was recalled in 1976 after the torture of the British doctor and human rights activist Sheila Cassidy during the rule of the dictatorial regime of Augusto Pinochet became known. The ambassadorial post in Chile was then refilled with John Heath again in 1980 .

[5] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 49583, HMSO, London, December 31, 1983, p. 17 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).

[6] London Gazette (Supplement). No. 52952, HMSO, London, June 13, 1992, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).

[7] Evidence of death for Helen Amy in The London Gazette, January 27, 2006