Horace Phillips (diplomat)
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Sir Horace Phillips, KCMG (May 31, 1917, Glasgow, Scotland - March 19, 2004) was a British diplomat who served in a number of postings in East Africa, the Middle East, and Indonesia from 1947 though 1977. Famously, he was declared a persona non grata as British ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 1968 because he was of Jewish ancestry. Though it was widely reported in the media at the time that he was an "ex-Jew" or "non-practising Jew", he was in fact a member of a synagogue, and a religious Jew throughout his life.
He was married to Idina, Lady Phillips.
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