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SIR (CRAWFORD) MURRAY MACLEHOSE GBE KCMG KCVO

Sir Murray MacLehose was born on 16 October 1917 and educated

at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. After war service in the

RNVR (Lieutenant) he joined the Foreign Service in 1947. He

served in Hankow until 1950, then, after a short period in the

Foreign Office, in Prague, Wellington and Paris. In 1959 he

was seconded to Hong Kong as Political Adviser to the Governor.

On his return to the Foreign Office in 1963 he became Head of

Far Eastern Department and from 1965-67 was Principal Private

Secretary to the Secretary of State (first Mr Michael Stewart

and later Mr George Brown). In 1967 he was appointed

HM Ambassador in Saigon and in 1969 HM Ambassador in Copenhagen.

Since November 1971 he has been Governor and Commander-in-Chief

of Hong Kong. He is married with two daughters, one of whom is

partially paralysed as a result of a riding accident.