Maurice Peterson
Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson
GCMG
(10 March 1889 – 15 March 1952) was a British diplomat who was minister or ambassador to several countries.
Career
Maurice Drummond Peterson was the younger son of
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
.
Peterson was
Lord Halifax,[4] yet in June 1940 he was recalled to London and served as Controller of Overseas Publicity in the Ministry of Information
1940–41 and as head of the Egyptian, eastern and far eastern departments of the Foreign Office 1942–44.
Peterson was Ambassador to Turkey 1944–46[5] and finally Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1946–49.[6] In 1949 he retired from the Diplomatic Service due to illness, and was subsequently a director of Midland Bank.
Publications
- Both sides of the curtain: an autobiography, Constable, London, 1950
Honours
Maurice Peterson was appointed CMG in 1933, knighted KCMG in 1938 on his appointment to Iraq,[7] and promoted GCMG in the New Year Honours of 1947.[8]
Offices held
References
- PETERSON, Sir Maurice Drummond, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2012
- Victor Rothwell, Peterson, Sir Maurice Drummond (1889–1952), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2012
- Ancestors of Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson GCMG
- ^ The London Gazette, 8 April 1938
- ^ The London Gazette, 19 April 1938
- ^ The London Gazette, 28 April 1939
- ^ Obituary – Sir Maurice Peterson, The Times, London, 17 March 1952, page 6
- ^ The London Gazette, 30 January 1945
- ^ The London Gazette, 6 September 1946
- ^ The London Gazette, 28 January 1938
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1947
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