Jock Taylor (diplomat)

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Jock Taylor (1979)

John Lang "Jock" Taylor , KCMG (born August 3, 1924 in Karlsbad , † September 30, 2002 ) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany between 1981 and 1984, among other things .

Life

Studies and beginning of the diplomatic career

John Lang "Jock" Taylor was the son of the diplomat John William Taylor , who was ambassador to Mexico between 1950 and 1954 . After completing his school education in Prague , Vienna and at the Imperial Service College, he began studying engineering at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University . During the Second World War he served between 1944 and 1947 in the volunteer reserve of the Royal Air Force RAFVR. On his return to Britain, he completed a study of history at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge and entered 1949 in the diplomatic service. In the following years he was used in numerous missions abroad as Saigon and Hanoi (1950-1952), Beirut (1952-1955), Prague (1955-1957) and Montevideo (1960-1964) and in the meantime the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Office ) .

In 1960, Jock Taylor moved to the Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany for the first time , where he was Deputy Chancellor between 1960 and 1967 and then between 1967 and 1969 Counselor for Trade. He then served as Counselor for Trade at the Embassy in Argentina from 1969 to 1972 and then moved to the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ) , where he was head of the Industry, Science and Energy Division between 1972 and 1973 and then from 1973 to 1974 Assistant Undersecretary of State for Science, Energy and Transport. He then moved to the Department of Energy , where he was Assistant Undersecretary from 1974 to 1975. In 1974 he was named Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services .

Ambassador to Venezuela, the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany

In 1975 Taylor assumed his first ambassadorial post when he replaced Lee's Mayall ambassador in Venezuela . He remained in this post until 1979 and was then replaced by Reginald Secondé . He himself then succeeded Richard Sykes as ambassador to the Netherlands in March 1979 and held this position until 1981, when Philip Mansfield succeeded him there. Shortly after starting his work in the Netherlands, he was beaten on June 16, 1979 to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and since then has had the suffix "Sir".

Most recently, Jock Taylor became Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981, successor to Oliver Wright . He held this post until he retired in 1984 and was then replaced by Julian Bullard . After his retirement he was chairman of the supervisory board of Klöckner INA between 1984 and 1992 and of Siemens UK from 1985 to 1991 . His marriage to Molly Rushworth in 1952 resulted in three daughters and five sons, including the diplomat Duncan Taylor , who, like his grandfather, was ambassador to Mexico from 2013 to 2018.

Fonts

  • Living with nuclear weapons - the British position. Lecture on December 8, 1983 in the Reimarus Hall of the Patriotic Society , Übersee-Club, Hamburg 1983.
  • Europe and the new technologies. Lecture, January 31, 1984 , German World Economic Society eV, Association for World Economic Research and Education, Berlin 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 704
  2. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 626
  3. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 987
  4. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 937
  5. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 878
  6. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 781
  7. ↑ Knights and Dames (leighrayment.com)
  8. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 701
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Jock
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, John Lang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlovy Vary , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2002