David Roberts (diplomat)
Sir David Arthur Roberts, KBE, CMG, CVO (8 August 1924 – 7 June 1987) was a British career diplomat who was ambassador to Lebanon, Syria and the United Arab Emirates.
Career[edit]
David Roberts was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Jesus College, Oxford. After wartime service in the Royal Armoured Corps he joined the Diplomatic Service in 1947. He served in Baghdad, Tokyo, Alexandria, Khartoum, Dakar, Damascus and Dubai, with some intervening posts in London, before being appointed High Commissioner to Barbados in 1971. Roberts was Ambassador to Syria 1973–76; High Commissioner to Sierra Leone 1976–77; Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates 1977–81; and Ambassador to Lebanon 1981–83. He was knighted in the New Year Honours in 1983[1] and was director-general of the Middle East Association 1983–85. In 1985 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University.
Sir David was chairman of Herefordshire District Health Authority from 1986 until his death.
Publications[edit]
- The Ba'th and the Creation of Modern Syria, Palgrave, 1987. ISBN 0-312-06948-0
References[edit]
ROBERTS, Sir David (Arthur), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 14 Feb 2012
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1982
- ^ "Bennett, John Still". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 9 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Lebanon
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Syria
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United Arab Emirates
- Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
- Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Barbados
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Sierra Leone
- Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 1924 births
- 1987 deaths
- People educated at Hereford Cathedral School
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Royal Armoured Corps soldiers
- British expatriates in Iraq
- British expatriates in Japan
- British expatriates in Egypt
- British expatriates in Sudan
- British expatriates in Senegal