George Humphrey Middleton

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Sir George Humphrey Middleton KCMG (born January 21, 1910 - February 12, 1998 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

George Humphrey Middleton studied from 1920 to 1928 at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1932 he studied at the University of Freiburg in the German Empire and at the University of Barcelona . George Humphrey Middleton joined the foreign service in 1933. In 1934 he married Elizabeth Rosalie Okeden Pockley. He did his internship as Vice Consul in Buenos Aires .

In 1935 he was the third-class secretary of the embassy in Asunción , Paraguay . From 1944 to 1945 he was Secretary in Washington, DC from January 28 to 31 October 1952, he was chargé d'affaires in Tehran than in the Abadan Crisis exploitation of the Persian oil fields were renegotiated.

From 1953 to 1956 he was Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi . From 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador to Beirut . In 1958 he became a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George to hit Knight . From 1961 to 1964 he was ambassador to Buenos Aires . From 1964 to 1965 he was ambassador to Cairo in Egypt, which was designated as the United Arab Republic under Gamal Abdel Nasser .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sir George Humphrey Middleton, former diplomat, 83; The Independent , January 21, 1993 [1]
  2. Magdalen College ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ox.ac.uk
  3. Great Britain. Foreign Office, The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book , Harrison and sons., 1956 - Political Science, p. 354
  4. ^ Ronald W. Ferrier, JH Bamberg, The History of the British Petroleum Company , p. 605
  5. Knights and Dames: MA – MIF at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
predecessor Office successor
Francis Shepherd British Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran
1952
Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright
Edwin Arthur Chapman-Andrews British Ambassador to Beirut
1956–1958
Ponsonby Moore Crosthwaite
Bernard Burrows Head of the Persian Gulf Residency
1958–1961
William Henry Tucker Luce
John Guthrie Ward British Ambassador to Buenos Aires
1961–1964
Michael Creswell
Harold Beeley British Ambassador to Cairo
1964–1967
Harold Beeley