Henry Darwin: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 18:50, 30 May 2011

Henry Galton Darwin CMG (6 November 1929 - 17 September 1992) was a British lawyer and diplomat specialising in international law.

Biography

Darwin born in Edinburgh, the second son (of four) and third child (of five) of the physicist Charles Galton Darwin (later Sir) and his wife Katherine (nee Pember, later Lady Darwin), a mathematician. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1958 he married Jane Christie, an English teacher; they had three daughters:

Sophia Katherine Darwin (born in Düsseldorf between 1961 and 1963), mathematician
Emma L. Darwin (born 1964) - novelist
Carola Frances Darwin (born 1967), opera singer

Darwin was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1953. He served as assistant Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office 1954-1960 and again 1963-1967; between 1960 and 1963 he was Legal Adviser to the British Embassy in Bonn, West Germany. He was then Legal Counsellor to the UK Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, New York 1967-1970, before returning to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 1970-1973. He then worked as Director-General Legal Secretariat European Communities Brussels 1973-1976. He was Deputy Legal Adviser to the FCO 1976-1984, during which time in 1977 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and was Second Legal Adviser FCO 1984-1989.

Darwin died in London on 17 September 1992.

External links

Obituary from The Independent
‘DARWIN, Henry Galton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 16 Jan 2011

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled -->
+{{Article for deletion/dated|page=Henry Darwin|timestamp=20110530185015|year=2011|month=May|day=30|substed=yes}}
+<!-- For administrator use only: {{Old AfD multi|page=Henry Darwin|date=30 May 2011|result='''keep'''}} -->
+<!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point -->
 '''Henry Galton Darwin''' [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] (6 November 1929 - 17 September 1992) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[lawyer]] and [[diplomat]] specialising in [[international law]].