Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth GCMG KCVO (born February 3, 1909 in Doncaster , Yorkshire , † June 29, 1984 in Westminster , London ) was a British diplomat and politician who, among other things, was the High Commissioner in India as well as the Permanent Secretary of the State Department ( permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) was and in 1969 as a Life peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Gore-Booth graduated after visiting the Eton College to study at Balliol College of Oxford University , which he with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). He then entered the foreign service and in 1949 initially took on the position of Head of the Department for the Reconstruction of Europe in the Foreign Office , but was shortly thereafter between 1949 and 1953 Director General of the Information Service ( British Information Services ) in the USA . For his services, he became Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1949 and served as ambassador to Burma from 1953 to 1956 .

Upon his return from Burma, Gore-Booth was Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs between 1956 and 1960 and was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) in 1957 , so that from then on he bore the suffix "Sir". After completing this activity, he was appointed High Commissioner in India in 1960, where he succeeded Malcolm MacDonald . In 1961 he also became Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). After five years in India, he handed over the office of High Commissioner to John Freeman in 1965 , who was previously editor of the weekly New Statesman .

Gore-Booth, who was also awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG) in 1965, succeeded Harold Caccia as permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ( Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ). This top office, where he most recently since 1968 and head of the Foreign Service ( Head of Foreign Service was) he held until joining the retirement in 1969 and its subsequent replacement by Denis Greenhill .

By a letters patent dated July 2, 1969, Gore-Booth, who was also registrar of the Order of St. Michael and St. George between 1966 and his death in 1984, was given the title Baron Gore-Booth as a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958. Booth , of Maltby in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was raised to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

His marriage to Patricia Mary Ellerton on September 21, 1940 resulted in four children, including Sir David Alwyn Gore-Booth , who also became a diplomat and, among other things, ambassador to Saudi Arabia and, like his father, also high commissioner in India between 1996 and 1998 was.

Web links

• Paul Gore-Booth at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.