Guy Millard

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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

Diplomatic Service in 1939, but served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[1][2]

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

  1. ^ . Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. ^ "No. 34727". The London Gazette. 7 November 1939. p. 7493.
  3. ^ Interview with Sir Guy Millard (incorrectly named in the catalogue page), Yale-UN Oral History Project, 20 April 1991
  4. ^ a b "Sir Guy Millard". The Times. No. 70886. 16 May 2013.
  5. , QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 98 Issue 6, pp. 387-402, 6 May 2005 (footnote 11)
  6. ^ "Sir Guy Millard". The Daily Telegraph. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  7. ^ "No. 44516". The London Gazette. 2 February 1968. p. 1355.
  8. ^ "No. 45588". The London Gazette. 1 February 1972. p. 1282.
  9. ^ "No. 46357". The London Gazette. 1 October 1974. p. 8113.
  10. ^ "Sir Guy Millard: Diplomat who served during the Suez crisis". The Independent. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  11. ^ "No. 40960". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1957. p. 4.
  12. ^ "No. 42305". The London Gazette. 17 March 1961. p. 2057.
  13. ^ "No. 45554". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1972. p. 4.]

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister
1955–1957
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Budapest

1967–1969
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Stockholm

1971–1974
Succeeded by
Sir Sam Falle
Preceded by
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome

1974–1976
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