Robert Wade-Gery
Sir Robert Wade-Gery KCMG KCVO (22 April 1929 – 16 February 2015) was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India 1982–87.
Career
Robert Lucian Wade-Gery was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he achieved a double first class degree. He then passed the examination to become a Fellow of All Souls 1951–58; subsequently he was a "Fifty-Pound Fellow" 1959–73 and a "Two-Year Fellow" 1987–89; he was an Honorary Fellow from 2011 until his death in 2015.[1] At the same time he joined the Foreign Service in 1951[2] and served at Bonn, Tel Aviv and Saigon as well as posts at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office). He was Minister at Madrid 1973–77 and at Moscow 1977–79, deputy Secretary of the Cabinet 1979–82, and High Commissioner to India 1982–87. He then left the Diplomatic Service and was a director of Barclays Capital 1987–99. He was a member and treasurer (1991–2005) of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and was chairman of the governors of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1990–1999).
Wade-Gery was appointed CMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1979,[3] knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1983[4] and given the additional knighthood of KCVO in November 1983.[5]
Family
Robert Wade-Gery was the son of Theodore Wade-Gery who was professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.
References
- WADE-GERY, Sir Robert (Lucian), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Nov 2014
- Interview with Sir Robert Wade-Gery (including biography), British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge
- ↑ Sir Robert Wade-Gery, Honorary Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 40417. p. 1169. 29 February 1955.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47869. p. 3. 16 June 1979.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 49212. p. 4. 31 December 1982.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 49569. p. 16478. 13 December 1983.
External links
- Sir Robert Wade-Gery: Diplomat who as a member of Margaret Thatcher’s war cabinet during the Falklands crisis delivered the order to sink the Belgrano (full-page obituary), The Times, London, 26 February 2015, page 57 (subscription required)
- Obituary: Sir Robert Wade-Gery KCMG KCVO, 1929–2015, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 20 February 2015
- Sir Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat - obituary, The Telegraph, London, 5 March 2015
| Diplomatic posts | ||
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| Preceded by Sir John Thomson |
High Commissioner to India 1982–1987 |
Succeeded by Sir David Goodall |