Registry
No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret,
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT
To:
MARK EVELYN HEATH
STAFF
....................... In Confidence
ANNEX D.
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. Ext.
5
Department
DSR 11
Mr Heath was born on 22 May 1927 and educated at Marlborough and Queen's College, Cambridge. From 1945-48 he served in the Royal Navy as a Sub-Lieutenant.
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1950 serving in the FO, Jakarta, Copenhagen, Sofia, Ottawa before being promoted to Grade 4 in 1970 as Head of Commodities Department in the FCO. He then went to our delegation to the OECD in Paris as Counsellor and Head of Chancery
▪
From 1974 to 1975 he served
in the Defence and Overseas Secretariat of the Cabinet Office. From 1975 to 1978 he was head of FCO West African Department and non-resident Ambassador to Chad.
the Inspectorate.
Since 1978 he has been in
He is married with 2 sons and 1 daughter.
aged 20.
His youngest child is
Mr Heath has wide all round experience in the Diplomatic
Service.
Both as a representative abroad and as a policy maker in London he has done well. An imposing figure (he is 6'8") his personality enables him to establish easy and fruitful relationships with colleagues and foreigners alike. He has good political sense, good powers of decision and mental toughness; this last quality showed to good advantage in his present job in the Inspectorate.
Like the present Governor of
the Falkland Islands, however, he has had no previous colonial
Dd 0532000 800M 5/78 HMSO Bracknell
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.