Con O'Neill (diplomat)
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Sir Con O'Neill, (June 3, 1912 - January 11, 1988), was a British civil servant and diplomat. He led the British delegation which negotiated the country's entry to the European Economic Community.[1]
O'Neill was the second son of Ulster Unionist M.P. Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan. He studied first at Eton, then at Balliol College, Oxford. He gained a fellowship at All Souls in 1935 before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1936.
In 1939, with the outbreak of World War II, he entered the Army Intelligence Corps. He worked at the Foreign Office during this time. During 1946 an 1947 he was a leader writer for the Times. He re-entered the foreign service in 1948.[2]
His daughter Onora, now Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, became Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
[edit] References
- ^ (January 2007) Who Was Who. A&C Black.
- ^ Roy Denman, ‘O'Neill, Sir Con Douglas Walter (1912–1988)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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