John Snodgrass (diplomat)
John Michael Owen Snodgrass CMG (12 August 1928 – 4 February 2008) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA).[1]
Position held
- 3rd Sec., Rome, 1953–1956
- 1st Sec., Beirut, 1960–1963
- Consul-General to Jerusalem, 1970-74.[2]
- Counsellor British Embassy, South Africa, 1974-77.
- Head of South Pacific, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1977-80.
- Ambassador to Zaire, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, 1980-83.
- Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1983-86.[3]
References
- ↑ ‘SNODGRASS, John Michael Owen’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014
- ↑ "Consuls-General to Jerusalem". Retrieved 15 September 2006.
- ↑ "SNODGRASS, John Michael Owen". Who's Who 2008. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- John Michael Owen Snodgrass. Debrett's People of Today (Debrett's Peerage). 2004.
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Alan Donald |
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Democratic Republic of Congo 1980–1983 |
Succeeded by Nicholas Bayne |
| Preceded by Giles Bullard |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Sofia 1983–1986 |
Succeeded by John Fawcett |