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Frank Brenchley
Thomas Frank Brenchley CMG (9 April 1918 – 7 July 2011) was a British diplomat. Career Frank Brenchley was educated at Sir William Turner's School, Coatham, North Yorkshire, and Merton College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals 1939–46 as an intelligence officer in the Middle East. He was assistant military attaché at Ankara 1943–45 while the spy Cicero was operating, and was Director, Telecommunications Liaison, Syria and Lebanon, 1945–46. After leaving the army he spent two years as a civil servant at GCHQ before transferring to the Foreign Office in 1949. He served in Singapore, Cairo, MECAS, Khartoum and Jeddah before returning to London as Head of the Arabian Department of the Foreign Office 1963–67 and then Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1967–68. Brenchley was Ambassador to Norway 1968–72, Ambassador to Poland 1972–74 and finally Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1975–76. He retired from the Diplomatic Service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Dixon Scott
Sir Ian Dixon Scott (6 March 1909 – 3 March 2002) was a British Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant and a Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, career diplomat who served as Deputy Private Secretary to the last two Governor-General of India, Viceroys of British Raj, India. He was later appointed Ambassador to Republic of the Congo, Congo, Sudan and Norway in the 1960s. Writings * ''Notes on Chitral'' (1937) * ''Tumbled House: the Congo at independence'' (1969) * ''A British Tale of Indian and Foreign Service'' (1999) Personal life He married, in 1937, Drusilla Lindsay, daughter of Sandie Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, Lord Lindsay, the former Master of Balliol. They had a son and four daughters. Death Sir Ian Dixon Scott, died at Aldeburgh on 3 March 2002. References SCOTT, Sir Ian Dixon ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Ian Dixon 1909 births 2002 deaths People educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permanent Secretary
A permanent secretary (also known as a principal secretary) is the most senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant of a department or Ministry (government department), ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities. Permanent secretaries are the non-political civil service Chief executive officer, chief executives of government departments or ministries, who generally hold their position for a number of years (thus "permanent") at a ministry as distinct from the changing political secretaries of state to whom they report and provide advice. Country Australia In Australia, the position is called the "department secretary", “secretary of the department”, or “director-general of the department” in some states and territories. Barbados Canada In Canada, the senior civil service position is a "deputy minister", who within a government ministry or department is outranked only by a Minister (government), Minister of the Crown. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Sir William Turner's Grammar School, Redcar
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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