Terence Clark

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Sir Terence Joseph Clark

CVO
(born 19 June 1934) is a British retired diplomat and writer.

Career

Clark was educated at

Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1983–85, ambassador to Iraq 1985–89 during the Iran–Iraq War, and back to Muscat as ambassador to Oman 1990–94 including the 1991 Gulf War
.

Clark left the Diplomatic Service in 1994 and was a consultant to the international business development company MEC International 1995–2008 and chairman of the Anglo-Omani Society 1995–2004. He was director of the International Crisis Group's Bosnia Project in Sarajevo in 1996.[2]

Honours

Clark was appointed CVO in 1978,[3] CMG in 1985,[4] and knighted KBE in 1990.[5] He was awarded the Commander's Cross of the German Order of Merit in 1978 while he was serving in Bonn.

Publications

  • The Saluqi: Coursing Hound of the East (chapters), ed. Gail Goodman, Midbar, 1995.
  • Oman in Time: A Nation's History (contribution), Ministry of Information, Oman, 2001
  • Dogs in Antiquity: Anubis to Cerberus; The Origins of the Domestic Dog (with Douglas Brewer and Adrian Phillips), Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 2001.
  • Underground to Overseas: The Story of
  • British missions around the Gulf, 1575-2005: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman (with

References

  1. ^ "No. 40636". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 November 1955. p. 6576.
  2. ^ "MEC Team". Archived from the original on 1 September 2005. Retrieved 8 March 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), MEC International
  3. ^ "No. 47567". The London Gazette. 13 June 1978. p. 7147.
  4. ^ "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 3.
  5. ^ "No. 52173". The London Gazette. 15 June 1990. p. 16.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Ambassador to Iraq

1985–1989
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ambassador to Oman

1990–1994
Succeeded by
Richard Muir