Foreign Office
He joined the Foreign Office. in May 1946 and served in London, Washington, D.C., the U.K. delegation to NATO, Cyprus, as U.K. representative to the Council of Europe, and India. He was ambassador in Senegal and to the Arms Control Committee in Geneva.
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