Pierson John Dixon
Sir Pierson John Dixon GCMG , CB (born November 13, 1904 , † April 22, 1965 ) was a British diplomat .
Dixon studied at Bedford School and Pembroke College in Cambridge . From 1943 to 1948 he was Principal Private Secretary to Anthony Eden and Ernest Bevin , and from 1948 to 1959 Ambassador to Prague . On January 2, 1950, George VI took it . (United Kingdom) as Knight Commander in the Order of St. Michael and St. George . From 1950 to 1954 Dixon was Deputy Secretary of State in the State Department, from 1954 to 1960 he was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations . 1957 was promoted to Knight Grand Cross in the Order of St. Michael and St. George . From 1960 to 1964 he was ambassador to Paris .
Individual evidence
- ^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 38797, HMSO, London, February 2, 1950, p. 5 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols |
British ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1948–1950 |
Philip Mainwaring Broadmead |
Gladwyn Jebb |
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations 1954–1960 |
Patrick Dean |
Gladwyn Jebb |
British ambassador to France 1960–1964 |
Patrick Reilly |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dixon, Pierson John |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nichols, Philip BB |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ambassador |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1904 |
DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1965 |