Bryan Cartledge

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Sir Bryan Cartledge
Sir Richard Parsons
Succeeded byPeter Unwin
Personal details
Born (1931-06-10) 10 June 1931 (age 92)
NationalityBritish

Sir Bryan Cartledge

KCMG (born 10 June 1931),[1] is a former British diplomat
and academic.

After studying at

Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He was inspired to become a diplomat after being invited to assist the former British prime minister and foreign secretary Sir Anthony Eden
with his memoirs.

In the British Diplomatic Service, Cartledge served in Sweden, the Soviet Union and Iran before being appointed, in 1977, to be Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the British prime minister; he served both James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher in that capacity before taking up his first ambassadorial appointment as British ambassador to Hungary in 1980. He then headed the Defence and Overseas Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, as deputy secretary of the British Cabinet, before returning to Moscow as ambassador, where he had regular dealings with Mikhail Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze.

Cartledge left the Diplomatic Service in 1988 on his election to be Principal of

The Peace Conferences of 1919–23
and Their Aftermath".

Academic offices
Preceded by Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
1988–1996
Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 10 June 2013. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2014. Sir Bryan Cartledge, Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, 1988–96, 82

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