Edward Gervase Willan

Sir Edward Gervase Willan KCMG (born May 17, 1917 in Burley, Ringwood, Hampshire , † February 12, 2006 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

From 1931 to 1935 Edward Gervase Willan studied first in Radley and then on a scholarship at Pembroke College , Cambridge . In 1939 he entered the service of the British colonial administration in British India and was employed in the Central Provinces of India from September 24, 1940 until India's independence in 1947. From 1947 to 1949 he was with the High Commission in New Delhi . Then Willan was first class embassy secretary in The Hague until 1952 and then in Bucharest until 1958 . After an interim position at the Foreign Office , he worked in the administration of Hong Kong from 1962 to 1965 .

On June 13, 1964 he was accepted as a Companion in the Order of St. Michael and St. George . From 1965 to 1968 he headed the technology department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. After that, Willan was envoy in Lagos until 1970 , ambassador in Rangoon until 1974 and ambassador in Prague until 1977 . In 1977 he was retired .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34951, HMSO, London, September 24, 1940, p. 5657 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43343, HMSO, London, June 13, 1964, p. 4941 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
3. ↑ Obituary in the Telegraph
4. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)  

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