Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk Thomas Brimelow 0 30313 243761 238612 2022-05-02T15:35:41Z Robin 120 Text replacement - "He served as " to "He was " wikitext text/x-wiki {{person |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brimelow,_Baron_Brimelow |spartacus= |image=Thomas Brimelow.jpg |birth_date=25 October 1915 |death_date=2 August 1995 |nationality=British |description=Uk diplomat. Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Head of the Diplomatic Service 1973-75. |alma_mater=New Mills Grammar School,New College (Oxford) |constitutes=diplomat |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Thomas_Brimelow |employment={{job |title=Head of the Diplomatic Service |start=1973 |end=1975 }}{{job |title=Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |start=1973 |end=1975 }}{{job |title=UK/Ambassador/Poland |start=1966 |end=1969 }}{{job |title= Member of the European Parliament |start=1977 |end=1978 }} }} '''Thomas Brimelow, Baron Brimelow''' was a British [[diplomat]]. He was [[List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Poland|Ambassador to Poland]] (1966–69), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Head of the Diplomatic Service (1973-75), and [[Member of the European Parliament]] (1977–78).<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-brimelow-1594696.html</ref> [[Alistair Horne]] describes him as "cherubic, and unflappable, but with a piercing intellect"<ref name=":0">Horne, Alistair. Kissinger's Year: 1973. p. 158.</ref> and "''the'' Foreign Office expect on the Soviets, and Russian behaviour".<ref name=":0" /> He was also known to be passionate about equality of opportunity and a less stratified society in Great Britain.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-brimelow-1594696.html</ref> He played an important role alongside [[United States Secretary of State|US Secretary of State]] [[Henry Kissinger]] in negotiating the 1973 [[Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] which, according to Kissinger, "owed, in fact, more to British than American expertise".<ref name=":1">Kissinger, Henry. Years of Upheaval. p. 282</ref> Kissinger described Brimelow's role as "an example of the Anglo-American '[[Special Relationship|special relationship]]' at its best, even at a time when the incumbent Prime Minister ([[Edward Heath|Heath]]) was not among its advocates. There was no other government which we would have dealt with so openly, exchanged ideas so freely, or in effect permitted to participate in our own deliberations."<ref name=":1" /> He was educated at [[New Mills Grammar School]] and [[New College, Oxford]].<ref>‘BRIMELOW’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref> His daughter, [[Alison Brimelow|Alison]], was the fifth President of the European Patent Office. Brimelow was created a [[life peer]] on 29 January 1976 taking the title '''Baron Brimelow'''<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46812/page/1529</ref> {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{PageCredit |site=Wikipedia |date=02.02.2022 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brimelow,_Baron_Brimelow }} gxh0jihowgha0avn5ir972fuw4und7h