Winfred Peppinck
Winfred Marcel Peppinck | |
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| Australian High Commissioner to Barbados | |
| In office 2001[1] – May 2004[2] | |
| Prime Minister | John Howard |
| Succeeded by | John Michell (to Port of Spain) |
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| Born | 2 January 1946 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Died | 1 October 2020 (aged 74) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
| Website | Australia in Trinidad and Tobago |
Winfred Marcel Peppinck (2 January 1946 – 1 October 2020) was an Australian author and former diplomat who served as the Australian Ambassador to the Caribbean at the former High Commission in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Biography
[edit]He was born in The Hague, in the Netherlands on 2 January 1946. His family Annette (mum) Waldemar (dad) and Wido (younger brother) moved to the Dutch East Indies and in 1951 they emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. He received a degree in politics then worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic trainee. He was assigned to Brazil, South Africa, Uganda and Indonesia. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Ambassador to the Caribbean.[3]
From 2004 he served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa.[4][5] After the start of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, Peppinck wrote a number of articles in the pro-government Gulf Daily News, defending the Bahrain government's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.[6][7]
Peppinck died on 1 October 2020.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ announcement of the Governor General of Australia , 14 March 2001
- ^ Australia's diplomat arrives: John Michell, www.newsday.co.tt
- ^ "Winfred Peppinck". Olympia Publishers. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Insights into life of a globetrotter". Gulf Daily News. 4 January 2009.
- ^ "Wilfred Peppinck - The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados". m-ybooks.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Peppinck, Winfred (10 April 2011). "Let's be media-savvy..." Gulf Daily News.
- ^ Peppinck, Winfred (16 May 2011). "Justice must be seen to reign supreme..." Gulf Daily News.
- ^ "Death Notice: Winfred Peppinck". The Canberra Times. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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