Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet
Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet .
Early life
Horace Anthony Claude Rumbold, son of
Diplomatic Service
in 1935.
Career
Rumbold began his career in the
Geneva Conference in May 1954,[2] Eden and Winston Churchill's trip to Washington in June for talks with the Secretary of State (John Foster Dulles) and President Dwight D. Eisenhower,[3][4] and a tour of European capitals in September 1954.[5]
When Churchill resigned and Eden became Prime Minister in April 1955, Rumbold remained for a few months as PPS to the new Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan, accompanying him to San Francisco in June 1955 for talks between the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia in preparation for the Geneva Summit in the following month.[6]
Rumbold left the Foreign Office for a time, then returned, and was an assistant
U-2 incident
just before the summit took place.
In June 1960 Rumbold was appointed
Ambassador to Austria.[10]
He retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1970.
Honours
Anthony Rumbold was appointed CMG in the 1953
Queen's Birthday Honours of 1955 for his work as PPS to the Foreign Secretary.[12] He was knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1962[13] and KCVO in 1969.[14] The Norwegian government made him Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1955 and the Austrian government gave him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit
in 1969.
Personal life
Anthony Rumbold inherited the
Rumbold baronetcy on the death of his father, Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet, in 1941 (thus becoming Sir Anthony long before he would have acquired the title through knighthood). In 1937 he married Felicity Ann Bailey (whose maternal grandfather was the 1st Earl of Inchcape) at St Margaret's, Westminster
. They had three daughters and one son, who inherited the baronetcy as Sir Henry Rumbold, 11th Baronet.
Anthony Rumbold's
best man at his wedding was his friend and fellow-diplomat Donald Maclean[15] who was much later revealed to be a Soviet spy, which led to suspicions that Rumbold might have been the so-called "Fifth Man" in the spy ring which included Maclean.[16]
In 1974 Sir Anthony and Lady Rumbold were divorced, and he married
ethnographer Julian Pitt-Rivers. They had no children; she died in 2008.[17]
Offices held
References
- RUMBOLD, Sir (Horace) Anthony (Claude), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 9 June 2012
- Sir Anthony Rumbold, obituary, The Times, London, 6 December 1983, page 16
- ^ Changes at Foreign Office – Secretary to Mr Eden, The Times, London, 30 March 1954, page 3
- ^ The Times, London, 24 May 1954, page 6
- ^ The Times, London, 24 June 1954, page 6
- ^ Prime Minister And Mr Eden Leave For U.S., The Times, London, 25 June 1954, page 6
- ^ The Times, London, 10 September 1954, page 8
- ^ Ministers' Talk in San Francisco, The Times, London, 22 June 1955, page 10
- ^ Leaders' Visit To Oxford, The Times, London, 31 August 1959, page 8
- ^ Foreign Office Appointments, The Times, London, 24 June 1960, page 11
- ^ "No. 43604". The London Gazette. 19 March 1965. p. 2798.
- ^ "No. 44478". The London Gazette. 19 December 1967. p. 13951.
- ^ "No. 39863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1953. p. 2946.
- ^ "No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3260.
- ^ "No. 42683". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1962. p. 4311.
- ^ "No. 44862". The London Gazette. 6 June 1969. p. 5885.
- ^ The Times, London, 30 June 1937, page 19
- Nigel West, The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence operations, quoted in The Times, London, 26 June 1992, page 2
- ^ Pauline, Lady Rumbold: Actress and poet born into bohemian high society, The Independent, London, 13 December 2008
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