Edward Peck (British diplomat)
Sir Edward Heywood Peck GCMG (5 October 1915 – 24 July 2009) was a British diplomat, climber and author. He was grandfather of the noted writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane.
Career
Edward Heywood Peck was educated at
High Commissioner's office at New Delhi
1950–52.
Peck was in
Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (the governing body of NATO
) 1970–75.
Peck then retired to Scotland, where he was director of the
honorary doctorate
in 1997.
Peck was appointed
KCMG in the Birthday Honours of 1966[7] and raised to GCMG in the Birthday Honours of 1974.[8] He was elected to the Alpine Club (UK)
in 1944.
Publications
- North-East Scotland (Bartholomew's Guides Series), Bartholomew, 1981. ISBN 0702880213
- Avonside explored: a guide to Tomintoul and Glenlivet, self-published, 1983. ISBN 0950855308
- The Battle of Glenlivet, Avonside Conservation Group, 1993. ISBN 0950855316
References
- PECK, Sir Edward (Heywood), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009
- Obituary: Sir Edward Peck: Diplomat and mountaineer who became British ambassador to Nato and chairman of the joint intelligence committee, The Guardian, London, 4 August 2009
- Sir Edward Peck (obituary), The Telegraph, London, 9 August 2009
- Sir Edward Peck: diplomat, The Times, London, 29 July 2009
- Sir Edward Peck, tribute delivered at the General Meeting of the Alpine Club, 8 September 2009
- ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p454/5: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ^ The London Gazette, 11 October 1938
- ^ The London Gazette, 19 November 1940
- ^ The London Gazette, 9 April 1946
- ^ The Telegraph, 9 Aug 2009
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 June 1957
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1966
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 15 June 1974
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