Morrice James, Baron St Brides

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John Morrice Cairns James, Baron St Brides , GCMG , CVO , MBE , PC ( April 30, 1916 - November 26, 1989 ) was a senior British diplomat . He served as the British High Commissioner for Pakistan , India and Australia , and was a specialist in relations with South Asia .

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James went to Bradfield College and Balliol College , Oxford . In 1939 he took up a position in the Dominions Office in London and was private secretary to the Ministerial Council from April to August 1940 . In August 1940 he served in the Royal Navy as a seaman and from February of the following year in the Royal Marines , which he left as Lieutenant Colonel at the end of the war .

He returned to the Dominions Office in 1945 , which was merged with the India Office to form the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1947 , and served in South Africa , London and Pakistan, where he was Head of the Deputy High Commissions in Lahore and Karachi in the 1950s . He then served as Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi before returning to Pakistan as High Commissioner from 1962 to 1965. From 1968 to 1971 he served once again as High Commissioner in New Delhi and in 1971 became High Commissioner for Australia. In 1976 he retired.

James was knighted in 1962, joined the Privy Council in 1962 and was promoted to the nobility as Baron St Brides , of Hasguard in the County of Dyfed in 1977 as a life peer and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

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  1. ↑ John Morrice Cairns James, Baron St Brides on thepeerage.com , accessed August 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Sir James Morrice (PDF; 1.2 MB) David Man. Retrieved June 29, 2006.
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SURNAME James, Morrice, Baron St Brides
ALTERNATIVE NAMES James, John Morrice Cairns, Baron St Brides; James, Morrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and member of the House of Lords (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1916
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1989