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CONFIDENTIAL

HKA 431/393/16

MrsClayton Frost

Inspectorate

(Procedures Unit) CG 714

BBR

APPOINTMENT: GOVERNOR, HONG KONG

1.

I should be grateful if the attached announcement which is to be made at 0930 hours on Tuesday 22 December could be circulated in the usual way on the afternoon of that day. Distribution should be 'Heads of Department and above' and

'Whitehall'.

2. Please could priority copies be sent to Heads of Mission Section and Senior Appointments Section (Miss Taylor) POD.

21 December 1981

Britt Rook.

B Brett Rooks (Miss)

Hong Kong and General Department K 248 233 4475

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News Department

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1. I should be grateful if the following announcement could

be made as agreed at 0930 hours on Tuesday, 22 December:

2.

3.

'Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Edward Youde KCMG MBE as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong, in succession to

Sir Murray MacLehose GBE KCMG KCVO, whose term.

office expires in April 1982. Sir Edward is expected

to take up his appointment shortly thereafter.

I attach a curriculum vitae of Sir Edward Youde.

I should be grateful if you would inform journalists, particularly stringers for the Hong Kong media and others with a close interest in Hong Kong, that Sir E Youde will be available to meet the Press at the Hong Kong Government Office, 6 Grafton Street, London W1, at 12 noon on 22 December.

4. I attach a list of defensive points for use by Sir E Youde. with the Press. I suggest that News Department should draw only on items A to E inclusive in answering questions at the daily press briefing. These are related to the appointment itself. Items F to H cover policy matters and are slanted to the Hong Kong audience. They would come most appropriately from Sir E Youde himself. It would be best for FCO spokesmen not to use them, taking the line that policy matters fall outside the scope of the appointment's announcement.

21 December 1981

CC

Chief Clerk

Mr Donald

Private Secretary

PS/LPS

PS/PUS

Head/POD

Hncuade

H McQuade

Hong Kong and General Department

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SIR EDWARD YOUDE KCMG MBE

Born: 19 June 1924

Educated Victoria School and County School, Penarth,

and London University (The School of Oriental and

African Studies)

Career:

1943-46

1947

1947

1947

1951

1953

1956

1960

1962

1965

1969

1970

1971

1973

1974

1978

RNVR

Entered Foreign Service

Foreign Office (Third Secretary, China Dept)

Nanking (later Peking) (Third Secretary)

Foreign Office (Third Secretary)

Peking (Second Secretary)

Washington (Second Secretary)

Peking (First Secretary)

Foreign Office (First Secretary Assistant, Northern Dept)

United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York (Counsellor)

Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the Prime Minister

Imperial Defence College

FCO (Head of Personnel Services Dept)

FCO (Assistant Under-Secretary of State)

HM Ambassador, Peking

FCO (Deputy Under-Secretary of State and Chief Clerk and Deputy to the Permanent- Under-Secretary (1980)

Married: 1951 Pamela Fitt

Children: Two daughters (1955, 1959)

DECORATIONS, MBE (1949), CMG (1969), KCMG (1977)