Reader Bullard

Sir Reader Bullard KCB KCMG (born December 5, 1885 in the London Borough of Waltham Forest , † May 24, 1976 in Wantage ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Reader Bullard was the son of Mary Bullard and Charles Bullard, a worker on the London Docks . He attended a school in Woodford Green in North East London. He studied for two years at Queens' College (Cambridge) and entered the foreign service in 1906, where he was deployed in the Levant . He was employed in Constantinople and Baghdad . In 1914 he was acting consul in Basra .

In 1920 he was an advisor to the military governor in Baghdad , Iraq. In 1921 he was employed in the Middle East Department of the Colonial Office. From 1923 to 1925 he was consul in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia. From 1925 to 1928 he was consul in Athens , Greece. In 1928 he was consul in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia. In 1930 he was Consul General in Moscow , Soviet Union . From 1931 to 1934 he was consul in Leningrad , Soviet Union. In 1934 he was Consul General in Rabat , French Morocco . From 1936 to 1939 he was envoy to Jeddah , Saudi Arabia. From 1939 to 1943 he was envoy in Baghdad, Iraq. From 1943 to 1946 he was envoy to Tehran , Iran during the Tehran Conference .

In 1951 Bullard became director of the Institute of Colonial Studies at Oxford. In 1953 he became a member of the management of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

In 1916 Bullard became Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire , 1933 Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George , 1936 Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), 1944 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) . He was an honorary fellow at Queens College, Cambridge, SOAS in London and Lincoln College, Oxford.

In 1921 Reader Bullard married Miriam Catherine Smith, daughter of historian Arthur Lionel Smith. They had a daughter and four sons and a daughter, including the diplomats Sir Giles Bullard (1926–1992) and Sir Julian Bullard (1928–2006).

Bullard was retired in 1946 . He spent his retirement in Woodstock Road, Oxford, North Oxford, England. His written estate is archived at St Antony's College , Oxford.

Publications

• Britain and the Middle East. Hutchinson's University Library, London / New York City 1951.
• The Camels must go. Autobiography. Faber and Faber, London 1961.
• EC Hodgkin (Ed.): Letters from Tehran: A British Ambassador in World War II Persia. LB Tauris, London 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cecil John Edmonds, East and west of Zagros : travel, war and politics in Persia and Iraq 1913-1921; Penelope Tuson, Playing the game: the story of Western women in Arabia

predecessor	Office	successor
Andrew Ryan	British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1936–1939	Francis Hugh William Stonehewer Bird
Archibald Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel	British Ambassador to Iraq 1939–1943	Humphrey Trevelyan
Horace James Seymour	British ambassador to Tehran 1943–1946	John Helier Le Rougetel