Ian Samuel
Adrian Christopher Ian Samuel CVO (20 August 1915 – 26 December 2010) was a Royal Air Force pilot, British diplomat, and director of chemical and agrochemical trade associations.
Career
Ian Samuel was educated at
Coastal Command, and was pilot of a Flying Fortress that sank German submarine U-169 in March 1943.[1]
After the war Samuel returned to the Diplomatic Service with postings at
Foreign Secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, then briefly to Sir Alec Douglas-Home. In late 1963 he was appointed minister (second to the Ambassador) at Madrid. He left the Diplomatic Service in 1965 and was director of the British Chemical Engineering Contractors Association 1966–69 and of the British Agrochemicals Association 1972–78, then director-general of Groupement International des Associations Nationales de Fabricants de Produits Agrochimiques (GIFAP, now CropLife International
) 1978–79.
Samuel was appointed CMG in the
Publications
- Plant Protection in Modern Agriculture (English edition, with Hans-Hermann Cramer), British Agrochemicals Association, 1979
- An Astonishing Fellow: The Life of ISBN 0946041350
- A Mouthful of Ashes, The Spectator, 19 December 1987, Page 49
References
- SAMUEL, Adrian Christopher Ian, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011
- Ian Samuel (obituary), The Telegraph, London, 27 January 2011
- ISBN 1854095153, page 108
- ^ "No. 41727". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1959. p. 3701.
- ^ "No. 42870". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1963. p. 5.
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