Sydney Giffard

Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (born 30 October 1926) is a British diplomat and author.

Early life

Giffard was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University.[1]

Career

Giffard's career in the foreign service began in 1961.[1]

He became the British Ambassador to Switzerland from 1980.[2] He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984.[1] In 1984-1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan.[1]

Honors

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Sydney Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.[4]

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  • Ai no Shogen (The Flowers are fallen) by Rinzō Shiina, 1961, translated from the Japanese by Giffard
  • Japan among the powers 1880-1990, 1994
  • Guns, kites and horses: three diaries from the Western front, 2003

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Embassy of Japan in the UK, "The Japanese Government confers a decoration to Sir Sydney Giffard" Archived 5 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine.; retrieved 2013-1-7.
  2. ↑ "No. 48325". The London Gazette. 1 October 1980. p. 13693.
  3. ↑ "No. 49583". The London Gazette. 31 December 1983. p. 4.
  4. ↑ WorldCat Identities: Giffard, Sydney
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