John Kingston O'Donoghue

John Kingston O'Donoghue (born October 6, 1894 , † 1976 ) was a British diplomat.

Life and activity

O'Donoghue was inducted into the British diplomatic service on March 4, 1915. From February 2, 1917, he took part in the First World War. On October 30, 1917, he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant with the Irish Rifles.

After the end of the war, O'Donoghue returned to the Foreign Office on February 10, 1919 . From October 1921 to February 1922 he was a member of the British delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Washington, DC . With effect from January 1, 1920 O'Donoghue had previously rotated to the rank of Junior Executive in the diplomatic service.

On December 11, 1924, O'Donoghue was appointed archivist at the British Embassy in Berlin . After the outbreak of World War II, he was employed as a Higher Executive Officer in the Foreign Office from September 6, 1939.

As a keeper of secrets, who probably had intimate knowledge of the activities of the British Embassy in Berlin until 1939, O'Donoghue was placed on the Special Wanted List GB by the National Socialist police , a directory of people who should be successfully invaded and occupied by the British Isles The Wehrmacht should be located and arrested with special priority by SS special commandos.

On August 1, 1944, O'Donoghue was assigned the rank of Acting Senior Executive Officer of the Allied Commission for Germany. On April 25, 1945, he was promoted to Acting Principal.

After a brief reassignment to the Foreign Office on January 1, 1947, O'Donoghue was sent to Rio de Janeiro as Acting Consul-General . A few months later, on October 30, 1947, he was appointed British consul in New York. As early as June 20, 1947, he was promoted to Branch B as a 2nd grade officer (Grade 2 Officer) of the foreign service.

On November 25, 1950, O'Donoghue was promoted to the first rank and appointed as an assistant in the personnel department of the Foreign Office in London. On October 1, 1953, he was promoted to the senior branch of the Foreign Service and on October 16, 1953 appointed as British Consul General in Philadelphia .

He retired on December 7, 1956.

family

O'Donoghue was married to Mary Carmela Burrell since 1925, with whom he had 2 sons and a daughter.

literature

• Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died , Vol. 7.
• Foreign Office: The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , 1963, p. 375.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on O'Donoghue on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .