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JAMES PATRICK IVAN HENNESY
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Mr Hennesy was born on 26 September 1923 and educated at Bedford
and Durham University. Shortly after starting at University,
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however, he was called up into the Army and from 1942-46 he
served in the Royal Artillery rising to the rank of Major.
1946 he took the Colonial Administrators Services Course in
London and Cambridge and joined the HMOCS in Basutoland in 1948.
He there served as Assistant District Officer, District Officer,
Judicial Commissioner, District Commissioner and from 1956-59
Secretary of the Constitutional Committee. He supervised the
ensuing elections as Supervisor of Elections and then served
briefly as Secretary to the Executive Council. From 1960-63
he served as Assistant Secretary on secondment in the High
Commission in Pretoria. In 1963-64 he again supervised the
elections and from 1964 to 1968 he was Permanent secretary ip
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In 1968 he entered the Diplomatic Service as Grade 5A oficer
serving inthe FCO first in Rhodesia Economic Department and
subsequently in Central African Department. From 1970 to 1972
he served in Montevideo as Head of Chancery and subsequently as
Charge d'Affaires. From 1972 to 1973 he was Assistant Head of
FCO's South East Asian Department and from 1973-76 he was in
Kampala as Acting High Commissioner on promotion to DS Grade 4.
Since 1977 he has been Consul-General in Cape Town.
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