Sir Denis Seward Laskey (18 January 1916 – 16 October 1987) was British ambassador to Romania and Austria.
Career
Denis Seward Laskey was educated at
Marlborough College
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and
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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. He joined the
Foreign Office
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in 1939, served briefly in the
British Army
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1940–41, then returned to the Foreign Office until the end of the
war
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, when he was posted to
Berlin
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and later to the UK delegation to the
United Nations
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in
New York
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. He was
Principal Private Secretary
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The role exists in t ...
to the
Foreign Secretary
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(
Selwyn Lloyd
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, (28 July 1904 – 18 May 1978) was a British politician. Born and raised in Cheshire, he was an active Liberal as a young man in the 1920s. In the following decade, he practised as a barrister and s ...
) 1956–59,
Minister (second to the
Ambassador
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) at
Rome
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1960–64,
Permanent Under-Secretary
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at the
Cabinet Office
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1964–67, Minister at
Bonn
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1967–68, Ambassador to
Romania
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1969–71 and Ambassador to
Austria
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1972–75.
Laskey was appointed
CMG in the
1957 New Year Honours
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, CVO in the
1958 Birthday Honours
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and knighted KCMG in the
1974 New Year Honours
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.
References
LASKEY, Sir Denis (Seward) ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
Sir Denis Laskey(obituary), ''The Times'', London, 19 October 1987, page 18
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1916 births
1987 deaths
People educated at Marlborough College
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
British Army personnel of World War II
Principal Private Secretaries to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Romania
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Austria
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order