Anthony Montague Browne

Sir Anthony Montague Browne KCMG CBE DFC (8 May 1923 – 1 April 2013) was a British diplomat who was private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill for the last ten years of his life.

Career

Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne (Montague Browne is a "double-barrelled surname") was educated at Stowe School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service with 211 Squadron RAF over Japanese occupied Burma.[1] He entered the Foreign Office in 1946[2] and served at the British Embassy in Paris 1949–52. He was then chosen to be Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. When Churchill retired in 1955, Montague Browne briefly returned to the Foreign Office but in the same year was seconded to continue as Churchill's private secretary. He stayed with Churchill for the rest of Churchill's life.

After Churchill's death Montague Browne was seconded to the Royal Household 1965–67. He was a trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in the UK.

Montague Browne was appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1955 after Churchill's retirement,[3] CBE in 1965 after Churchill's death,[4] and knighted KCMG in 2000 "for long and distinguished public service".[5]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Browne, Anthony Montague, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary London 1995 Chapter 3 ISBN 0304344788
  2. ↑ The London Gazette, 13 May 1949
  3. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 9 June 1955
  4. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 1965
  5. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 19 June 2000
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
David Hunt		 Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister
1952–1955 		Succeeded by
Guy Millard and Sir Philip de Zulueta