Michael_Burton_(diplomat)

Michael Burton (diplomat)

Michael Burton (diplomat)

British diplomat

Sir Michael St Edmund Burton KCVO CMG (born 1937) is a retired British diplomat.[1]

Biography

Born on 18 October 1937, Burton was educated at Bedford School and Magdalen College, Oxford, and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1960.[2]

He was British Minister in Berlin, 1985–1992, acting as Deputy Commandant to the British Military Government, 1985–1990, and Head of the British Embassy Office, 1990–1992; Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office (Middle East), 1993; and British Ambassador to the Czech Republic, 1994–1997.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "BDOHP -British Diplomatic Oral History Programme – Churchill College".
  2. [2]
    https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Burton.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. [3]
    "Burton, Sir Michael (St Edmund), (Born 18 Oct. 1937), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; independent consultant and lecturer".

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