Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet
Sir John Alexander Noble Graham, 4th Baronet, GCMG (15 July 1926 – 11 December 2019) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Iraq, Iran and NATO.
Career
Graham, born in Calcutta, British India, the only son of
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1954–57 and then served at Belgrade 1957–60, Benghazi 1960–61, the Foreign Office 1961–66 and Kuwait
1966–69.
Graham was
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 1977–79; Ambassador to Iran 1979–80;[3] deputy Under-Secretary again 1980–82; and finally Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels
1982–86.
After retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 1986, Graham was Registrar of the Order of St Michael and St George 1987–2001[4] and was also Director of the Ditchley Foundation 1987–92.[5]
Graham died on 11 December 2019 at the age of 93.[6]
Honours
Graham was appointed a
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1986 New Year Honours.[9]
He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1980.
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- ^ GRAHAM, Sir John (Alexander Noble), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 21 Aug 2012
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- ^ "No. 50361". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1985. p. 3.