Eleanor Emery, CMG (23 December 1918 – 22 June 2007) was High Commissioner to Botswana from 1973 to 1977: the first British woman to reach that rank. She was born in

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but educated at

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; and the

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. She joined the Dominions Office in 1941 and was Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State from 1942 to 1945. After that she served in Bechuanaland

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and

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. Appointed an

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in 1966, she was

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of the South Asia Department at the CRO then the Pacific Dependent Territories Department before her

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appointment. She was

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of the

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from 1980 to 1985.'EMERY, Eleanor Jean', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
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People educated at Western Canada High School Alumni of the University of Glasgow High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Botswana 1918 births Diplomats from Glasgow 2007 deaths Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George British women ambassadors {{UK-diplomat-stub