William Quantrill (diplomat)

William Ernest Quantrill (born 4 May 1939) is a former British diplomat who served as Ambassador to Cameroon from 1991 to 1995.[1]

Quantrill was schooled at Colston's in Bristol and then went on to Durham for his university studies, graduating with a first-class BA in French.[2] He was a member of Hatfield College and was Secretary of the Junior Common Room in 1959.[3] He also served as Editor of Palatinate in 1960, in which capacity he criticised the anti-monarchism of some students at St Cuthbert's Society.[4] After university, Quantrill joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1962.[5]

Career

From 1964 to 1980 he served in several overseas posts in Belgium, Cuba, The Philippines, and Nigeria.[6] From 1980-1981 he was Head of Training Department and from 1984 to 1988 was Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the British Embassy in Venezuela.[7] He subsequently served as Deputy Governor of Gibraltar until 1990.[8]

Quantrill became Ambassador to Cameroon in 1991, also serving as non-resident representative to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and Chad.

In retirement, Quantrill was one of 52 former British diplomats to sign a letter in 2004 criticizing then British and American policy towards Iraq.[9]


Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Martin Reith		 British Ambassador to Cameroon
1991–1995		 Succeeded by
Nicholas McCarthy

References

  1. ↑ "Quantrill, William Ernest, (born 4 May 1939), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, 1991–95". Who's Who. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Quantrill, William Ernest, (born 4 May 1939), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, 1991–95". Who's Who. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Moyes, Arthur (1996). Hatfield 1846-1996. p. 287.
  4. ↑ "Editorial". Palatinate (136): 2. 17 June 1960. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Quantrill, William Ernest, (born 4 May 1939), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, 1991–95". Who's Who. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "British Diplomats Directory: Part 2 of 4". Issuu. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "British Diplomats Directory: Part 2 of 4". Issuu. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Letter: Towards a deal on Gibraltar". The Independent. 9 July 1997. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  9. ↑ MacAskill, Ewen; White, Michael (28 April 2004). "How email became a diplomatic incident". the Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2018.


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