Paul Gore-Booth

Paul Gore-Booth   (diplomat)
Born	3 February 1909
Died	29 June 1984 (Age 75)
Alma mater	Eton, Balliol (Oxford)
Children	David Gore-Booth
British high-ranking diplomat  Chairman In office 1970 - 1976 Employer Save the Children Succeeded by Peter Macadam  Head of HM Diplomatic Service In office 1968 - 1969  Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs  In office 1965 - 1969 Preceded by Harold Caccia Succeeded by Denis Greenhill  UK/High Commissioner/India  In office 1960 - 1965 Succeeded by John Freeman  UK/Ambassador/Burma In office 1953 - 1956  Director of British Information Services in United States In office 1949 - 1953 Employer British Information Services

Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth was a British diplomat. He served with distinction in the Diplomatic Service and in retirement held the following appointments: Director, Grindlays Bank, 1969–79, United Kingdom Provident Institution, 1969–79 and Registrar of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1966–79.

Lord Gore-Booth was educated at Eton and Balliol. After Oxford, he married in 1940, Patricia Mary Ellerton, by whom he had twin sons one of whom was Sir David Gore-Booth and two daughters. His aunt was the Irish republican and socialist revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth).

Career

Gore-Booth joined the British Foreign Service in 1933, serving in the Foreign Office in London from 1933–36, and then was stationed in Vienna, 1936–37, Tokyo, 1938–42, and Washington, 1942–45, where he attended the Hot Springs Food Conference in 1943. He returned to the Foreign Office in London, 1945–49, attending the UNRRA Conference, 1943, the Chicago Civil Aviation Conference, 1944, the San Francisco Conference, 1945, and the UN Assembly, January and October 1946 (as Secretary of the UK Delegation), and in 1947 as the British Representative, Group of Four Drafting Convention setting up the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He was Head of the UN Economic and Social and Refugees Departments, 1947–48; Head of European Recovery Department, Foreign Office, 1948–49; Director of British Information Services in United States, 1949–53; Ambassador to Burma, 1953–56; Deputy Under-Secretary (Economic Affairs), Foreign Office, 1956–60; British High Commissioner in India, 1960–65; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1965–69; and Head of HM Diplomatic Service, 1968–69.

Gore-Booth was also President of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1967–79; Chairman, Save the Children Fund, 1970–76; Chairman, Windsor Music Festival, 1971–73; Member, Disasters Emergency Committee, 1974–77; Chairman, Board of Governors, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975–80.

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