John Shakespeare (diplomat)

John William Richmond Shakespeare
John William Richmond Shakespeare
United Kingdom Ambassador to Peru
	In office; 1983–1987
Preceded by	Charles Wallace
Succeeded by	Adrian Beamish
United Kingdom Ambassador to Morocco
	In office; 1987–1990
Preceded by	Robin Byatt
Succeeded by	John Macrae
Personal details
Born	11 June 1930; Shimla
Children	Nicholas Shakespeare
Parents	William Goodman Shakespeare (24 April 1890. -1975) son of Reverend John Howard Shakespeare and Amy Gertrude Goodman. (father); Ruth Maude (Etty Potter) Shakespeare, daughter of William Etty Potter (mother);

John William Richmond Shakespeare , CMG, LVO is a retired British diplomat.

From 1949 to 1950 he was 2nd Lieutenant at the Irish Guards.
From 1953 to 1954 he was lecturer in English, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
In 1955 he was member of the Editorial Staff of the Times Educational Supplement.
In 1956 he was member of the Editorial Staff of The Times.
In 1959 he war Private Secretary to Gladwyn Jebb ambassador in Paris.
On 22 September 1960 he was appointed a member of the Foreign Service and served in Paris.
On August 1961 he was transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
On 1 July 1963 he was promoted 1st Secretary.
In 1968 he was employed from the Secret Intelligence Service.^[2]
1985 Birthday Honours he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
On 12 July 1973 he got Exequatur as Consul General in Buenos Aires.^[3]
On 26 January 1976 Derick Ashe terminated his duty as ambassador in Buenos Aires and JWR Shakespeare stayed as Chargé d'affaires, a task he also fulfilled during the Falklands War (2 April – 14 June 1982).^[4]
From 1983 to 1987 he was ambassador in Lima.
From 1987 to 1990 he was ambassador in Rabat.

References

^ Robert Drew, Alfred Peterkin, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army, 1660-1960: Roll of officers in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898-1960, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1968, [1]
^ Jonathan Bloch, Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action: Africa, Middle East, and, 1983, p. 270
^ John William Richmond Shakespeare, Esquire, M.V.O., to be Her Majesty's Consul-General for the Argentine Republic, to reside at Buenos Aires (12 July 1973). H.M. Stationery Office, The London Gazette, part 11, 1973, p. 13192
^ Her Majesty's Ambassador, Mr. Derick Kasslyn Ashe, CMG, will be terminated with effect from 26 January. Thereafter, and until the appointment of a successor, Mr. John William Richmond Shakespeare, MVO, Minister, will continue in charge of the Embassy in the capacity of Chargé d'Affaires “ad interim., THE REVIEW OF THE RIVER PLATE , 1976, p. 109, David Cox, Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976-1983 : The Exile of Editor Robert J. Cox. Jacobo Timerman [2][3]