Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (30 October 1926 – 21 February 2020) was a British diplomat and author. He was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College,

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.Embassy of Japan in the UK
"The Japanese Government confers a decoration to Sir Sydney Giffard"
; retrieved 7 January 2013. His career in the foreign service began in 1961. He became the

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from 1980. He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984. From 1984 to 1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan. In 1983 he received the

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and in 2003, the

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. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Giffard,

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encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.WorldCat IdentitiesGiffard, Sydney
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Bibliography

* ''Ai no Shogen'' (The Flowers are fallen) by

Rinzō Shiina Rinzō Shiina (椎名麟三 ''Shiina Rinzō''; born 大坪昇 ''Noboru Ōtsuka''; 1 October 1911 – 28 March 1973) was a Japanese writer, novelist, short story writer and playwright. Shiina's best known works were written after 1950. His writ ...

, 1961, translated from the Japanese by Giffard * ''Japan among the powers 1880–1990,'' 1994 * ''Guns, kites and horses: three diaries from the Western front,'' 2003

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giffard, Sydney 1926 births 2020 deaths People educated at Repton School Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford British Japanologists Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Japan 20th-century British diplomats