Leonard Allinson

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Sir Walter Leonard Allinson KCVO CMG (born May 1, 1926 ) is a former British diplomat who, among other things, was High Commissioner in Zambia between 1978 and 1980 and, most recently, High Commissioner in Kenya from 1982 to 1986, as well as ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program based in Nairobi (UNEP) was.

Life

Allinson started after visiting the Friern Barnet Grammar School in 1944 to study at Merton College of Oxford University and joined the civil service after the end of the 1947th Initially, he was senior assistant in the petroleum department of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and in 1948 he moved to the Ministry of Education . There he was initially also a senior assistant and intermittently from 1953 to 1954 deputy private secretary of the then Education Minister Florence Horsbrugh , before he was last chief officer (principal) there between 1954 and 1958 .

In 1958 he moved to the Ministry for Relations with the Commonwealth of Nations (Commonwealth Relations Office) and thus in the diplomatic service for relations with these states. Allinson held his first foreign post from 1960 to 1962 as First Secretary to the High Commissioner in Pakistan and during this time he became a member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1961 . He was first secretary to the High Commissioner in India between 1963 and 1966 after a new appointment in the Commonwealth Relations Office . In 1966 he returned to the emerged from the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO) Ministry of Commonwealth Affairs (Commonwealth Office) and became in March 1968 at the rank of Counselor Head of the Political Department of the Ministry of Commonwealth Affairs. After the Ministry of Commonwealth Affairs was merged with the Foreign Office in October 1968 to form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ) , he was initially Deputy Head and later until 1970 Head of the Office of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry.

After completing this activity, Allinson worked at the High Commissioner in Kenya, initially as Counselor Chancellor and then from 1972 to 1974 Deputy High Commissioner and thus permanent representative of the then High Commissioner Arthur Antony Duff . After attending a course at the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London in 1974 , he briefly worked in the Inspectorate for the Diplomatic Service and then between 1975 and 1977 Envoy and Deputy High Commissioner in India. On January 1, 1976, he became Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG).

In 1978, Allinson took over the post of High Commissioner in Zambia as the successor to Stephen Miles and remained in this post until he was replaced by John Rodney Johnson in 1980. On August 3, 1979, he was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". He then returned to the State Department in 1980, where he was Assistant Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Africa Department. He was last in 1982 successor to John Robert Williams as High Commissioner in Kenya , and was also an ambassador for the Nairobi-based environmental program of the United Nations (UNEP) accredited . He remained in this post until he retired in 1986 and was then replaced again by John Rodney Johnson.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44045, HMSO, London, July 5, 1966, p. 7568 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).
  2. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 974
  3. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 582
  4. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 582
  5. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 1014
  6. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 574
  7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46777, HMSO, London, January 1, 1976, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).
  8. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 617
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47989, HMSO, London, October 26, 1979, p. 13417 ( PDF , accessed June 11, 2016, English).
  10. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 932
  11. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 581
personal data
SURNAME Allinson, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allinson, Sir Walter Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1926