Stephen Barrett (diplomat)

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Sir Stephen Barrett KCMG (born 4 December 1931) is a retired British diplomat who was ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Career

Stephen Jeremy Barrett was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO) in 1955[1] and served in Cyprus, Berlin, Helsinki and Prague. He was briefly Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 1975. He was head of the British Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy in Tehran in 1981, Assistant Under-Secretary at the FCO 1981–84, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1985–88 and Ambassador to Poland 1988–91.

Barrett was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1982[2] and knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1991.[3]

Publications

  • Poland in transition : the return of the native, M.B. Grabowski memorial lecture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, 2001 (SSEES occasional papers, no. 54 )

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette, 17 February 1959
  2. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1981
  3. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 15 June 1991
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Antony Acland		 Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1975 		Succeeded by
Ewen Fergusson
Preceded by
John Rich		 Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
1985–1988 		Succeeded by
Laurence O'Keeffe
Preceded by
Sir Brian Barder		 Ambassador to Poland
1988–1991 		Succeeded by
Michael Llewellyn Smith
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