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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1937

SIR DAVID WILSON APPOINTED GOVERNOR

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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN HAS BEEN PLEASED TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF DR D.C. WILSON CMG TO BE GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER- IN-CHIEF OF HONG KONG IN SUCCESSION TO THE LATE SIR EDWARD YOUDE GCMG GCVO MBE,

THE QUEEN HAS ALSO BEEN PLEASED TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF DR WILSON AS A KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE.

SIR DAVID WILSON KCMG

DAVID CLIVE WILSON WAS BORN AT ALLOA IN SCOTLAND ON FEBRUARY 14, 1935. HE WAS EDUCATED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, GLENALMOND, AND KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD, WHERE HE WAS A SCHOLAR, GRADUATING IN MODERN HISTORY IN 1958. BETWEEN SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY HE DID NATIONAL SERVICE IN THE ARMY FROM 1953 TO 1955, WAS COMMISSIONED IN THE BLACK WATCH (RHR), AND SERVED SOME OF THAT TIME IN BRITISH GUIANA.

HE ENTERED THE FOREIGN SERVICE IN 1958 AND WORKED FIRST IN THE SOUTH-EAST ASIA DEPARTMENT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND THEN AS THIRD SECRETARY IN VIENTIANE. IN 1960 HE WAS ASSIGNED TO FULL-TIME CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDIES AT HONG KONG UNIVERSITY FOR TWO YEARS AND AT THE BEGINNING OF 1963 WAS POSTED TO PEKING AS THIRD, LATER SECOND, SECRETARY.

IN 1965 HE RETURNED TO THE FOREIGN OFFICE, ON PROMOTION TO FIRST SECRETARY, TO WORK IN THE FAR EASTERN DEPARTMENT. THREE YEARS LATER HE RESIGNED FROM THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE TO TAKE UP THE APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF THE CHINA QUARTERLY+ AT THE CONTEMPORARY CHINA INSTITUTE OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, LONDON UNIVERSITY.

DURING THAT PERIOD HE TOOK A SABBATICAL AS A VISITING SCHOLAR AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, IN 1972 AND GAINED A PHD FROM LONDON UNIVERSITY IN 1973.

IN 1974 SIR DAVID REJOINED THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND WORKED FOR THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS IN THE CABINET OFFICE. FROM 1977 TO 1981, FOLLOWING PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF COUNSELLOR, HE SERVED AS POLITICAL ADVISER TO THE GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG, RETURNING TO LONDON AT THE END OF 1981 TO BECOME HEAD OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DEPARTMENT IN THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.

SINCE FEBRUARY 1984, WITH A FURTHER PROMOTION, HE HAS HELD HIS CURRENT APPOINTMENT IN THE FCO AS ASSISTANT UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE RESPONSIBLE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC.

/SIR DAVID

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