Guy Millard
Sir Guy Elwin Millard CVO (22 January 1917 – 26 April 2013)[1] was a British diplomat who was closely involved in the Suez crisis, and afterwards ambassador to Hungary, Sweden and Italy.
Career
Guy Elwin Millard was educated at
Millard was a junior secretary to
Foreign Office to be his Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs.[3][4] He was thus closely involved with the Suez Crisis in 1956. Afterwards he wrote a detailed history of the episode, an edited version of which remains in the National Archives.[5][6]
Millard was
Minister in Washington, D.C., 1970–71, Ambassador to Sweden 1971–74[8] and Ambassador to Italy 1974–76.[9] After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, he served as chairman of the British-Italian Society 1977–83.[10]
Millard was appointed
Queen Elizabeth II to Iran, where Millard was stationed at the time.[12] He was knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1972.[13] The Italian government made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit in 1981.[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "No. 34727". The London Gazette. 7 November 1939. p. 7493.
- ^ Interview with Sir Guy Millard (incorrectly named in the catalogue page), Yale-UN Oral History Project, 20 April 1991
- ^ a b "Sir Guy Millard". The Times. No. 70886. 16 May 2013.
- , QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 98 Issue 6, pp. 387-402, 6 May 2005 (footnote 11)
- ^ "Sir Guy Millard". The Daily Telegraph. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "No. 44516". The London Gazette. 2 February 1968. p. 1355.
- ^ "No. 45588". The London Gazette. 1 February 1972. p. 1282.
- ^ "No. 46357". The London Gazette. 1 October 1974. p. 8113.
- ^ "Sir Guy Millard: Diplomat who served during the Suez crisis". The Independent. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "No. 40960". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1957. p. 4.
- ^ "No. 42305". The London Gazette. 17 March 1961. p. 2057.
- ^ "No. 45554". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1972. p. 4.]