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HONG KONG: VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE: 28 SEPTEMBER 1 OCTOBER 1981

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Brief No.6(i): PERSONALITY NOTE

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Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose GBE KCMG KCVO

Governor and Commander-in-Chief and President of the Executive and Legislative Councils since

November 1971.

Entered Foreign

Service 1947.

Born 1917.

Political Adviser in Hong Kong

1959-62. Head of Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office, 1963. Private Secretary to the Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs 1965.

HM Ambassador

Saigon 1967-69, and Copenhagen 1969-71.

Due to retire in April 1982.

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