Terence Clark
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. ISBN 0963922408
- Oman in Time: A Nation's History (contribution), Ministry of Information, Oman, 2001
- ISBN 0856687448
- Dogs in Antiquity: Anubis to Cerberus; The Origins of the Domestic Dog (with Douglas Brewer and Adrian Phillips), Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 2001. ISBN 0856687049
- Underground to Overseas: The Story of ISBN 190529946X
- British missions around the Gulf, 1575-2005: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman (with ISBN 1905246587
References
- CLARK, Sir Terence (Joseph), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
- Interview with Sir Terence Clark, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 8 November 2002
- ^ "No. 40636". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 November 1955. p. 6576.
- ^ "MEC Team". Archived from the original on 1 September 2005. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), MEC International - ^ "No. 47567". The London Gazette. 13 June 1978. p. 7147.
- ^ "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 52173". The London Gazette. 15 June 1990. p. 16.