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Glasgow-born grandson of poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Horace Phillips dreamed as a teenager of a career in the diplomatic service - if only as a British consul. But family circumstances and the Civil Service Commission ruled this out, and at 17 he became an Inland Revenue tax clerk, l...
Horace Phillips
Hardcover
224
I.B.Tauris
1850439648
9781850439646
5
1917
Died:2004
After seven years in the Army in the second World War, he served in a number of postings in East Africa, the Middle East, and Indonesia from 1947 though 1977, the year he retired....
where he had served for four and a half years as a diplomat ( from 1972 to 1977 ), by joining the International Relations of Bilkent University in Ankara, lecturing until 1997, latterly on the history of diplomacy.
British Jew
Award:Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Sport:Diplomacy