John Arthur Pilcher

Sir John Arthur Pilcher GCMG (1965) (born May 6, 1912 in Quetta , British India , † 1990 ) was a British diplomat .

Pilcher studied at Shrewbbury and Clare College in Cambridge. He married Delia Margret Taylor in 1942 with whom he had a daughter. On October 24, 1935, Pilcher entered the foreign service. On November 25, 1935, he was appointed Probationer Vice-Consul in Tokyo . On May 28, 1940 he became Vice-Consul in Cina. In 1952 he worked as a press attaché in Rome. He was ambassador from 1959 to 1963 in Manila ( Philippines ), from 1965 to 1957 in Vienna ( Austria ) and from 1967 to 1972 in Tokyo ( Japan ). In a letter to Alec Douglas-Home dated June 8, 1972, he stated that the Japanese are often exhausted with etiquette . In 1973 he was retired and a member of the Trilateral Commission .

His brother Graham Hope Pilcher was the husband of the writer Rosamunde Pilcher .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34217, HMSO, London, November 8, 1935, p. 7065 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2013, English).
2. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office, The Foreign Office list and diplomatic and consular year book , Harrison and Sons, 1964, p. 346
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34960, HMSO, London, October 4, 1940, p. 5829 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2013, English).
4. ↑ Japanese lack moral code: British ambassador ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ Trilateral Commission, PDF ( Memento of January 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
George Lisle Clutton	British Ambassador to the Philippines 1959–1963	John Mansfield Addis
Malcolm Sibourne Henderson	British ambassador to Austria 1965–1957	Anthony Rumbold, Bt.
Francis Rundall	British Ambassador to Japan 1967–1972	Frederick Warner