Roger Allen (diplomat)

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Allen in March 1957.

Sir Roger Allen

KCMG
(17 August 1909 – 9 February 1972) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Greece, Iraq and Turkey.

Career

Roger Allen was educated at

Foreign Office; after the war he stayed on in the Foreign Service and served two years at Moscow
before returning to London.

Allen was deputy British High Commissioner in

Abd al-Karim Qasim which culminated in the February 1963 coup d'état in which Qasim was overthrown and killed.[3]

Allen was Deputy

Under-Secretary of State (Middle East and Africa) at the Foreign Office 1965–67, and Ambassador to Turkey 1967–69.[4] He then retired from the Diplomatic Service and was director-general of the Middle East Association (a British business group
) from 1970 until his death.

Honours

Allen was appointed

CMG in 1950[5] and knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1957.[6]

References

  • ALLEN, Sir Roger, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • Thornhill, Michael. "Allen, Sir Roger".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67188. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  • Sir Roger Allen (obituary), The Times, London, 10 February 1972, page 16
  1. ^ The London Gazette, 5 July 1957
  2. ^ The London Gazette, 26 January 1962
  3. ISBN 9781409020028
    .
  4. ^ The London Gazette, 10 November 1967
  5. ^ The London Gazette, 8 June 1950
  6. ^ The London Gazette, 1 January 1957

External links

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Athens

1957–1961 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Baghdad

1961–1965 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Ankara

1967–1969 		Succeeded by
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