John Snodgrass (diplomat)
John Michael Owen Snodgrass CMG (12 August 1928 – 4 February 2008) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA).[1]
Position held
[edit]- 3rd Sec., Rome, 1953–1956
- 1st Sec., Beirut, 1960–1963
- Consul-General to Jerusalem, 1970–74.[2]
- Counsellor British Embassy, South Africa, 1974–77.
- Head of South Pacific, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1977–80.
- Ambassador to Zaire, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, 1980–83.
- Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1983–86.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ ‘SNODGRASS, John Michael Owen’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014
- ^ "Consuls-General to Jerusalem". Archived from the original on 21 October 2004. Retrieved 15 September 2006.
- ^ "SNODGRASS, John Michael Owen". Who's Who 2008. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- John Michael Owen Snodgrass. Debrett's Peerage. 2004.
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