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16 SEP 1980
DESK OFFICER
INDEX
HEADS OF MISSION BRIEFING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BRIE
PROGRAMME FOR ALL HEADS OF MISSION N
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Security Department (Mrwinchester) 273 3253
Security Course, half day (if the officer is Grade 4 and has not had one during the last five years)
Department of Trade and Industry (via the Assistant Secretary in
C.R.E. Dept. covering the area)
Photgraphs (via News Dept.)
Call on the Ambassador or High Commissioner of the country to which he is going
Ask the following if they wish to see him
Head of Personnel
Head of Accommodation Dept.
Secretarial Staff
TUC Call
(Mr Munro )
Tel. Nos
3087
Mr Scullard 2831 4489 (Miss Robertson) 3094 (Mr Jenkins) 273 4424
Commonwealth secretariat if thigh Commissioner
And also ask (for a later stage in the Programme wish to see him
Chief Clerk
Deputy Chief Clerk/Chief Inspector
PUS
Secretary of State
Minister
Research Department
f the following 2500
MR JOHN (MICHAEL OWEN) SNODGRASS
(Designated as HM Ambassador at Kinshasa)
Mr Snodgrass was born on 12 August 1928 in Cairo, where
his father, an RAMC Surgeon, was serving at the time.
He was
educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge
where he read Mathematics and Moral Sciences.
He entered the Foreign Service via the 1950 Normal
Competition and towards the end of that year took up his
appointment as a Third Secretary in Information Research
Department In 1952 he moved to China and Korea Department
and the following year began his first overseas assignment
as Third and later Second Secretary (Commercial) at Rome,
1956 he returned to the Foreign Office where, after short-term
appointments in first Personnel Department and later the
Permanent Under-Secretary's Department, he became Private
Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, *In 1959 he
was transferred to News Department and in 1960, on promotion,
he went to Beirut as First Secretary (Information). From 1964
to 1967 he was First Secretary at Pretoria/Capetown whence
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transferred to London once again. He served there for a few
months as Assistant Head of West and Central African Department
and early in 1968 moved to Central (later Southern European):
Department in the same capacity. On promotion to the rank of
Counsellor in 1970 he was appointed HM Consul-General at Jerusalem
and four years later moved on to South Africa as Counsellor and
Head of Chancery at Pretoria/Capetown.
In 1977 he commenced
further home posting, being assigned as Head of Pacific Dependent
Territories Department, and since January 1979 he has held his
qurrent appointment as Head of South Pacific Department, a new
department created by the merger of South-West Pacific Department
and his previous department,
In 1957 Mr Snodgrass married Jennifer (Ellard) James who
Was born in 1930 in Salisbury (then Southern Rhodesia) where
her parents were farming. Before her marriage she was an
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Oooupational Therapist. They have three sons, born in 1958
1962 and 1965.
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