Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth GCMG KCVO, HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Director: Grindlays Bank, 1969-79; United Kingdom Provident Institution, 1969-79; Registrar, Order of St Michael and St George, 1966-79;

b 3 Feb. 1909 d 29 June 1984.

Family

Married 1940, Patricia Mary Ellerton; twin s one of whom David Gore-Booth two d. Educated: Eton; Balliol Coll., Oxford.

Career

Joined Foreign Service, 1933; FO 1933-36; Vienna, 1936-37; Tokyo, 1938-42; Washington, 1942-45; FO, 1945-49; Head of UN (Economic and Social) and Refugees Depts, 1947-48; Head of European Recovery Dept, Foreign Office, 1948-49; Director British Information Services in United States, 1949-53; Ambassador to Burma, 1953-56; Deputy Under-Secretary (Economic Affairs), Foreign Office, 1956-60; British High Commissioner in India, 1960-65; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FO, 1965-69; Head of HM Diplomatic Service, 1968-69. Hot Springs Food Conference, 1943; UNRRA Conference, 1943; Chicago Civil Aviation Conference, 1944; San Francisco Conference, 1945; UN Assembly, 1946 (Sec. of UK Deleg.) January and October and 1947; British Representative, Group of Four drafting Convention setting up OECD. Chairman: Save the Children Fund, 1970-76; Disasters Emergency Committee, 1974-77. Chairman Board of Governors, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975-80. President Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1967-79; Chairman, Windsor Music Festival, 1971-73.

Works

* With Great Truth and Respect (autobiog.) 1974
* Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice, 5th edn, 1978.

References

* Who's Who


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