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Graham, Sir John Alexander Noble, 1926-2019, 4th Baronet, diplomat
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1926-2019
History
Born 1926; educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge; served in the Army, UK and Palestine, 1944-1947; commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, 1945; Lt, 1946; HM Foreign Service, 1950; Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, 1951; Third Secretary, Bahrain, 1951; Kuwait, 1952; Amman, Jordan, 1953; Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1954-1957; First Secretary, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1957-1960; Benghazi, Libya, 1960-1961; Foreign Office, 1961-1966; Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Kuwait, 1966-1969; Principal Private Secretary to Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, 1969-1972; awarded CMG, 1972; Counsellor (later Minister) and Head of Chancery, Washington DC, USA, 1972-1974; Ambassador to Iraq, 1974-1977;Deputy Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1977-1979; created KCMG, 1979; Ambassador to Iran, 1979-1980; Deputy Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1980-1982; Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), Brussels, Belgium, 1982-1986; appointed GCMG, 1986; Registrar, Order of St Michael and St George, since 1987; Director, Ditchley Foundation, Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, 1987-1992; died 2019.
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0099 KCLMA
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Further information is available at the National Archives (F32167)