Stephen Jeremy Barrett

Sir Stephen Jeremy Barrett , KCMG (born December 4, 1931 ) is a retired British diplomat .

Life

Stephen Jeremy Barrett attended Westminster School , London, and studied at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford . He joined the Foreign Service in 1955 and married Alison Mary Irvine in 1958; they have three sons together.

From May 4, 1957 to 1959, he was the second class secretary of the embassy in Nicosia and then until 1962 political advisor to the British military command in Berlin . He then worked in the Foreign Office until 1965 . From 1965 to 1968 he headed the consular section of the embassy in Helsinki and then worked again in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 1972 . He was head of the consular section of the embassy in Prague for two years from 1972 to 1974. He then became Principal Private Secretary of the Foreign Minister . From 1978 to 1981 he served as counselor in Ankara .

The British government handed over the building complex of the British Embassy in Tehran to the Kingdom of Sweden as a protecting power . This Swedish embassy subsequently housed the British Interests Section . Stephen Jeremy Barrett directed the British Interests Section in 1981 when he was inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George as a Companion on December 31, 1981 . From August 14, 1985 to 1988 he was ambassador in Prague and then until 1991 ambassador in Warsaw .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 48837, HMSO, London, December 31, 1981, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2013, English).
2. ↑ Mervyn O. Pragnell, Ann Patrick Rogers, The International year book and statesmen's who's whoBurke's Peerage Ltd., 1985 - 650 pp., 45

predecessor	Office	successor
John Graham	British Ambassador to Tehran in 1981	Nicholas John Barrington
John Rowland Rich	British Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1985–1988	Peter Laurence O'Keefe
Brian Barder	British Ambassador to Poland 1988–1991	Michael Llewellyn Smith