Edgar James Joint

Sir Edgar James Joint , KCMG , OBE (1955) ( 7 May 1902 , † 1981 ) was a British diplomat . From 1956 to 1960 he was the British ambassador to Colombia .

Life

Edgar James Joint was hired as a boy clerk in the Foreign Office's Overseas Trade Division on January 7, 1918 . On October 28, 1919 he became an assistant clerk.

In 1948 Edgar James was Joint Counselor (Commercial) at the Embassy in Brussels .

predecessor	Office	successor
Reginald Keith Jopson	British Ambassador to Colombia January 12, 1956 to 1960	Alfred Stanley Fordham

Individual evidence

^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died. Volume 9. A. & C. Black, London, 2002, p. 440.
^ The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , Great Britain. Foreign Office, Harrison and sons., 1949
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personal data
SURNAME	Joint, Edgar James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1902
DATE OF DEATH	1981

[1] Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died. Volume 9. A. & C. Black, London, 2002, p. 440.

[2] The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , Great Britain. Foreign Office, Harrison and sons., 1949

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