Eric George Norris

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Eric George Norris , KCMG (March 14, 1918 - March 15, 2005 ) was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner in Kenya between 1968 and 1972 and lastly High Commissioner in Malaysia between 1974 and 1977 .

Life

Eric George Norris, son of HF Norris, came after studying the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Office ) and found in the following years many different uses of foreign missions and the Foreign Ministry. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s he worked almost exclusively at the High Commissioner in India and initially from 1956 to 1957 as Counselor at the High Commissioner and then from 1957 to 1960 as Deputy High Commissioner in India for the Bombay headquarters . After a further assignment, he served as Deputy High Commissioner in India for the Calcutta office between 1962 and 1965 and became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1963 for his services there .

After his return Norris was in the State Department from 1965 to 1968 of assistive Undersecretary of State for Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations in Western , Eastern and South Africa (Assistant Under Secretary for Commonwealth Affairs (West, East and Southern Africa)) Then he dissolved in 1968 Edward Peck as High Commissioner in Kenya and remained in this post until 1972, whereupon Arthur Antony Duff took his place there. On January 1, 1969, he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that from then on he had the suffix "Sir". He then returned to the Foreign Ministry, where he was from 1972 to 1973 Deputy Undersecretary for Asia (Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Asia)) . Most recently, he took over the post of High Commissioner in Malaysia from John Baines Johnston in 1974 and held this position until he retired in 1977, whereupon Donald Hawley succeeded him.

After retiring from the diplomatic service, Sir Eric Norris worked in the private sector and, among other things, was director of the automobile trading company Inchcape between 1977 and 1988 , of which he was vice chairman from 1981 to 1986. He was also director of London Sumatra Plantations Ltd between 1978 and 1988 and director of Gray Mackenzie Ltd from 1978 to 1988 . His marriage to Pamela Crane in 1941 resulted in three daughters.

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  1. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 575
  2. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 577
  3. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 578
  4. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 1019
  5. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 581
  6. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  7. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 918
  8. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 585
personal data
SURNAME Norris, Eric George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1918
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2005