Anne Warburton
Dame Anne Warburton British Ambassador to Denmark | |
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In office 1976–1983 | |
Preceded by | Sir Andrew Stark |
Succeeded by | Sir James Mellon |
Personal details | |
Born | Anne Marion Warburton 8 June 1927 London, England |
Died | 4 June 2015 Eye, Suffolk, England | (aged 87)
Education | Barnard College Somerville College, Oxford |
Occupation | British diplomat |
Dame Anne Warburton
Career
Anne Marion Warburton was educated at
Warburton was the first female British ambassador.
After leaving Denmark, Warburton was ambassador and UK permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva (1983–1985). She was deputy leader of the UK delegation to the third UN World Conference on Women at Nairobi in July 1985, which closed the United Nations Decade for Women. She retired from the Diplomatic Service and was president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (1985–1994). Concurrently, she was a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission (1986–1988), of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), and of the Council of the University of East Anglia.[5]
Warburton led a
She died on 4 June 2015 at her home near Eye, Suffolk,[7] and is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's in Thornham Parva.
Publications
- Paying for NATO : how common finance can help the defence of the West (with John B. Wood), Friends of Atlantic Union, London, 1956
- Signposts to Denmark, Hernov, Copenhagen, 1992. (ISBN 8759022086)
Honours
Anne Warburton was appointed CVO in 1965[8] and CMG in 1977.[9] She was made Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1979.[10]
She was an Honorary Fellow of her alma mater,
References
- ^ "No. 42001". The London Gazette. 5 April 1960. p. 2467.
- ^ "No. 46943". The London Gazette. 24 June 1976. p. 8773.
- ^ Britain’s first female diplomats, Financial Times, London, 6 November 2009
- ^ "Women's history timeline" (1962), BBC Radio 4 archive; accessed 16 October 2014.
- ^ a b Anne Warburton Archived 15 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Somerville College, Oxford
- ^ Report on rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina to the EC foreign ministers by the EC Investigative Mission into the Treatment of Muslim Women in the Former Yugoslavia (28 January 1993), The Balkan Odyssey Digital Archive, University of Liverpool
- ^ Dame Anne Warburton, The Times, London, 9 June 2015
- ^ "No. 43691". The London Gazette. 22 June 1965. p. 5981.
- ^ "No. 47234". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1977. p. 7083.
- ^ "No. 47862". The London Gazette. 8 June 1979. p. 7283.
- ^ Commencement '96, Columbia University Record, 24 May 1996
- ^ WARBURTON, Dame Anne (Marion), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
External links
- Dame Anne Warburton, diplomat - obituary, The Telegraph, London, 9 June 2015