TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,
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SIR EDWARD TO SUCCEED SIR MURRAY
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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN HAS BEEN PLEASED TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF SIR EDWARD YOUDE KCMG MBE AS GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN HONG KONG IN SUCCESSION TO SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE GBE KCMG KCVO, WHOSE TERM OF OFFICE EXPIRES IN APRIL 1982. SIR EDWARD IS EXPECTED TO TAKE UP HIS APPOINTMENT SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
COMMENTING ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT, SIR MURRAY SAID: +1 AM DELIGHTED AT THE APPOINTMENT. SIR EDWARD HAS OUTSTANDING QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE HONG KONG, WHERE HE IS WELL KNOWN.+
SIR EDWARD YOUDE KCMG MBE
BORN 19TH JUNE 1924
EDUCATED VICTORIA SCHOOL AND COUNTY SCHOOL, PENARTH, AND LONDON UNIVERSITY (THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES).
ENTERED FOREIGN SERVICE
FOREIGN OFFICE (THIRD SECRETARY, CHINA DEPT) NANKING (LATER PEKING) (THIRD SECRETARY)
FOREIGN OFFICE (THIRD SECRETARY)
PEKING (SECOND SECRETARY)
WASHINGTON (SECOND SECRETARY) PEKING (FIRST SECRETARY)
FOREIGN OFFICE (FIRST SECRETARY
CAREER
1943 -
46
RNVR
1947
1947
1947
1951
1953
1956
1960 1962
1966
1969
1970
1971
1973
1974
1978
MARRIED · 1951
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PAMELA FITT
ASSISTANT, NORTHERN DEPARTMENT
UKMIS NEW YORK (COUNSELLOR,
PRIVATE SECRETARY (OVERSEAS AFFAIRS) TO THE PRIME MINISTER
IMPERIAL DEFENCE COLLEGE
FCO (HEAD OF PERSONNEL SERVICES DEPT) FCO (AUSS)
HM AMBASSADOR, PEKING
FCO (DUSS AND CHIEF CLERK AND DEPUTY
TO THE PUS (1980))
CHILDREN: TWO DAUGHTERS (1955, 1959)
DECORATIONS MBE (1949), CMG (1969), KCMG (1977)
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