John Gordon Doubleday

John Gordon Doubleday
Born 27 November 1920 (1920-11-27)
Died 17 April 1982 (1982-04-18) (aged 61)
Occupation British diplomat

John Gordon Doubleday OBE (1920-1982) was a British diplomat.[1]

Biography

Born on 27 November 1920, John Doubleday was educated at Bedford School and at St John's College, Cambridge. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and then service in the Colonial Service in Northern Rhodesia between 1949 and 1965, he entered the British Diplomatic Service in 1965. He was Deputy British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka between 1973 and 1976, before serving as British Ambassador to Liberia between 1978 and 1980.[2]

John Doubleday died on 27 April 1982.

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette, 3 October 1978
  2. ↑ http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U163642/DOUBLEDAY_John_Gordon?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0}
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
John Reiss		 British Ambassador to Liberia
1978-1980 		Succeeded by
Dougal Reid
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