Glencairn Balfour Paul

Glencairn Balfour Paul

Glencairn Balfour Paul CMG (September 23 19172 July 2008) was the British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia before becoming an academic at Exeter University.

Educated at Sedbergh School, then Magdalen College, Oxford. He served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during World War II before being sent east to Egypt the on to Sudan. After the war he joined the Sudan Political Service before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1955.

He was appointed Ambassador to Iraq in 1969, Ambassador to Jordan in July 1972 and then Ambassador to Tunisia.

On the evening before his death he attended the opening of an exhibition of photographs taken by him in the Gulf during the 1950 and 1960s. He worked the room with customary dignity and a sparkle of enthusiasm in his eyes and charmed all who met him. This made the subsequent news of his death all the more shocking to his many colleagues and friends who had gathered at the Institute of Arabian and Islamic Studies in Exeter for the annual Gulf Studies conference.

External links

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2536058/Glencairn-Balfour-Paul.html Telegraph obituary]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn — (died 1630) was a Scottish peer and member of the Privy Council of Scotland.Early lifeThe eldest son and heir of William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn by his spouse Janet, daughter of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar, James was engaged in the… …   Wikipedia

  • Deaths in July 2008 — Contents 1 July 2008 1.1 31 1.2 30 1.3 29 …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Iraq — The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Iraq is the United Kingdom s foremost diplomatic representative in Iraq, and in charge of the UK s diplomatic mission in Iraq. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty s Ambassador to the Republic of… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Jordan — The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Jordan is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland s (UK) foremost diplomatic representative in Jordan, and in charge of the UK s diplomatic mission in the country. List of Heads of… …   Wikipedia

  • The Rough Wooing — was a term coined by Sir Walter Scott and H. E. Marshall to describe the Anglo Scottish war pursued intermittently from 1544 to 1551. It followed from the failure of the Scots to honour the terms of the 1543 Treaty of Greenwich, by which the… …   Wikipedia

  • James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton — Infobox Monarch name =James Hamilton title =Duke of Hamilton caption =James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton by Daniel Mytens. reign = coronation = othertitles =Marquess of Hamilton Marquess of Clydesdale Earl of Arran Earl of Cambridge Lord… …   Wikipedia

  • James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair — (May, 1619 November 29, 1695), Scottish lawyer and statesman, was born at Drummurchie, Barr, South Ayrshire.BiographyHe was descended from a family for several generations inclined to the principles of the Reformation, and had ancestors both on… …   Wikipedia

  • John Maitland, 5th Earl of Lauderdale — John Maitland (later Lauder), 5th Earl of Lauderdale, 1st Baronet, (1655 August 30, 1710, both at Haltoun House, nr.Ratho, Midlothian, Scotland), was the second son of Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale, and succeeded his elder brother… …   Wikipedia

  • Mary, Queen of Scots — For other uses, see Mary, Queen of Scots (disambiguation). Mary Stuart Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots after François Clouet Queen of Scots …   Wikipedia

  • James Hamilton (1606-1649) — James Hamilton Duque de Hamilton James Hamilton, I duque de Hamilton por Daniel Mitens Nacimiento 19 de junio de 1606 Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire …   Wikipedia Español

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”