ME 2APW
ALOY
A 400/1
VO IN RAGISTRY
1 OFEB 1987
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DCX OFFICER
HOLY
Pů
SIR DAVID WILSON (KCMG
(Designated as Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong)
Sir David Wilson was born at Alloa in Scotland
1935
He
educated was
College,
History
Oxford, where
in
1958
Between
was a
school
at Trinity College
he
Scholar,
14 February
Glenalmond, and Keble
in Modern graduating
did National and university he
on
Service in the Army from 1953 to 1955, was commissioned in the Black Watch (RHR), and served some of that time in British Guiana.
He entered the Foreign Service in 1958 and worked first in the
South East Asia Department
Asia Department in the Foreign Office and then as Third
at
in
Vientiane.
1963
In 1960
he
was assigned to
was
posted
to
later
on
full-time Secretary Chinese language studies at Hong Kong University for two years and
Peking as Third, the beginning of Second Secretary In 1965 he returned to the Foreign Office, promotion to First Secretary, to work in the Far Eastern Department. Three years later he resigned from the Diplomatic Service to take up the appointment of Executive Editor of "The China Quarterly" at the Contemporary China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. During that period he took a Sabbatical New York, in 1972 and as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University gained a PhD from London University in 1973. rejoined the Diplomatic Service and
In 1974 Sir
Sir David
worked for three and a half
years in the Cabinet Office From 1977 to 1981, following promotion
to
he served the rank of Counsellor, Governor of Hong Kong, returning to London
become
February
1984,
w
to the
at the end of 1981 to
of the
following
Assistant Under Secretary of
Political Adviser as
Foreign and
a
further
State
Head of Southern European Department
In
Office. Commonwealth
as was appointed promotion, responsible for Asia and the Pacific.
he
In 1967 he married Natasha (Helen Mary) Alexander, who was born
in Oxford in 1943
Peter and Andrew, born in
sons They have two
Sir David's
owns and runs a Lady Wilson
interests main outside
nursery
are
1968 and 1969 respectively.
school in London
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