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British retired diplomat

Sir Stephen Jeremy Barrett KCMG (born 4 December 1931) is a British retired diplomat who was ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Career

Barrett was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO) in 1955 and served in Cyprus, Berlin, Helsinki, Prague and Ankara. He was briefly Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 1975. He was head of the British Interests Section at the Swedish Embassy in Tehran in 1981, Assistant Under-Secretary at the FCO 1981–84, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1985–88 and Ambassador to Poland 1988–91.

Barrett was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1982 and knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1991.

Publications

  • Poland in transition : the return of the native, M.B. Grabowski memorial lecture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, 2001 (SSEES occasional papers, no. 54)

References

  1. "No. 41637". The London Gazette. 17 February 1959. p. 1164.
  2. "No. 48837". The London Gazette. 31 December 1981. p. 4.
  3. "No. 52563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1991. p. 3.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded byAntony Acland Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1975 		Succeeded byEwen Fergusson
Preceded byJohn Rich Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
1985–1988 		Succeeded byLaurence O'Keeffe
Preceded bySir Brian Barder Ambassador to Poland
1988–1991 		Succeeded byMichael Llewellyn-Smith


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