Robert Wade-Gery
Sir Robert Wade-Gery KCVO (22 April 1929 – 16 February 2015) was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India 1982–87.
Biography
Wade-Gery was born in Oxford on 22 April 1929. His father,
Vivian Whitfield, an archaeologist.[1]
Wade-Gery was educated at
Fellow of All Souls 1951–58; subsequently he was a "Fifty-Pound Fellow" 1959–73 and a "Two-Year Fellow" 1987–89; he was an Honorary Fellow from 2011 until his death in 2015.[2]
On 16 June 1962, he married Sarah Marris and they had two children together. He died, after having a stroke, on 16 February 2015 in Gloucestershire.[1]
Wade-Gery was appointed
Queen's Birthday Honours of 1979,[3] knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1983[4] and given the additional knighthood of KCVO in November 1983.[5]
Career
Exempted from national service due to poor eyesight, he joined the
Saigon posting was during the Vietnam War, including a period where the American Embassy across the road was captured by the Viet Cong and his wife and daughter had to be evacuated.[1]
He was
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1990–1999).[1]
References
- WADE-GERY, Sir Robert (Lucian), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Nov 2014
- Interview with Sir Robert Wade-Gery (including biography), British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Sir Robert Wade-Gery, Honorary Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
- ^ "No. 47869". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1979. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 49212". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1982. p. 4.
- ^ "No. 49569". The London Gazette. 13 December 1983. p. 16478.
- ^ "No. 40417". The London Gazette. 25 February 1955. p. 1169.
External links
- Sir Robert Wade-Gery: Diplomat who as a member of Margaret Thatcher’s war cabinet during the Falklands crisis delivered the order to sink the Belgrano (full-page obituary), The Times, London, 26 February 2015, page 57 (subscription required)
- Obituary: Sir Robert Wade-Gery KCMG KCVO, 1929–2015, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 20 February 2015
- Sir Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat - obituary, The Telegraph, London, 5 March 2015