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VISIT OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ALEXANDRA

TO HONG KONG

OCTOBER 1972

Sir (Crawford) Murray MacLehose, KCMG, MBE

Biographical Note

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Sir Murray MacLehose was born on 16 October, 1917, and was

educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He

was appointed to the Colonial Service for service in Malaya

in 1939 and appointed Vice-Consul at Amoy in 1941.

He was

seconded to the Royal Navy for service in China 1943 and in

1944 was appointed Acting Consul at Foochow.

transferred to the Foreign Service and was appointed Acting

Consul at Hankow the same year. He returned to the Foreign

Office in 1950 and in 1951 was appointed First Secretary

(Commercial) at Prague. In 1954 he was seconded to the

Commonwealth Relations Office for service in Wellington and

in 1957 appointed First Secretary (Commercial) at Paris.

In 1959 he was promoted Counsellor and seconded to the

Colonial Office for service as Political Adviser, Hong Kong.

In 1963 he returned to the Foreign Office as Head of Far

Eastern Department and in July 1965 was appointed Private

Secretary to the Foreign Secretary.

In 1967 he was appointed

HM Ambassador at Saigon. He was appointed HM Ambassador in

Copenhagen in November 1969. He was appointed to his present

post in November 1971.

In 1947 he married Margaret Noel Dunlop. They have twin

daughters born in 1949.

Sir Murray was made a MBE in 1945, a CMG in 1964 and a KCMG

in 1971.