Sir Berkeley Everard Foley Gage,

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(27 February 1904 – 3 March 1994) was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Thailand from 1954 to 1957 and British Ambassador to Peru from 1958 to 1963.

Life and career

A member of the Gage family and a descendant of General

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, Berkeley Gage was the son of Brigadier-General Moreton Foley Gage, DSO and his first wife, Anne Massie, daughter of William Everard Strong, of

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. He had a younger brother, Major Edward Fitzhardinge Peyton Gage, sometime

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. He spent his early years in

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, where his father was

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at the

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. After education at

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and

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, Gage was appointed a Third Secretary in the

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in 1928 and posted to

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the same year. Transferred to the Foreign Office in 1931, he was promoted Second Secretary in 1933, and was appointed Private Secretary to the

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in 1934. After serving in

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in 1935, he returned to the Foreign Office in 1938, was posted China in 1941, to the Foreign Office in 1944, and was part of the British delegation to the

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the same year and to the

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from April to June 1945. Appointed a Grade 5 Foreign Service Officer in 1950, he was Counsellor at British Embassy at

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from 1947 to 1950, serving as ''

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'' in 1947 and 1948. He was Consul-General at Chicago from 1950 to 1954, British Ambassador to Thailand from 1954 to 1957, and British Ambassador to Peru from 1958 to 1963. After retirement, he was chairman of the British National Export Council's Latin America Committee from 1964 to 1966, and of the Anglo-Peruvian Society from 1969 to 1971. He was also a member of the Council for Volunteers Overseas from 1964 to 1966 and of the Council of the Council of the Fauna Preservation Society from 1969 to 1973. He published his memoirs, ''It's Been A Marvellous Party!'' in 1989.

Honours

Gage was appointed CMG in 1949, promoted KCMG in 1955, and appointed a Grand Cross of the Peruvian Order of the Sun in 1964.

Family

Gage married in 1931 Maria von Chapuis, of

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, Silesia; they had two sons. Their marriage was dissolved in 1954, and the same year he married Mrs Lillian Riggs Miller (''née'' Vukmirovic), of Dubrovnik. Lady Gage died in 2009.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gage, Berkeley Grand Crosses of the Order of the Sun of Peru 1904 births 1994 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Members of HM Diplomatic Service Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Thailand Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Peru

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20th-century British diplomats