Preceded by Sir Clifford Norton Nationality British Awards Military Cross Allegiance United Kingdom Succeeded by Sir Ivo Mallet Died April 10, 1958 Rank Lieutenant | Preceded by Sir Ralph Stevenson Name Charles Peake Service/branch British Army Succeeded by Sir Roger Allen Occupation Diplomat Battles and wars World War I | |
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Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake GCMG MC (2 January 1897 – 10 April 1958) was a British diplomat.
Peake served in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment during the First World War, being commissioned into the 1/4th Battalion in 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916. His service also included attachment to the regiment's 9th Battalion. Peake was discharged in 1918. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1922. His first appointment was in Sofia, subsequently being posted to Tokyo, Paris, Washington DC and Tangier. In 1939, Peake became head of the Foreign Office News Department and chief press adviser at the Ministry of Information. In 1941 he was posted to Washington as Acting Counsellor. In 1946 he became Ambassador to Yugoslavia, before his appointment as Ambassador to Greece in 1951. He served in the position until 1957. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1956. Peake married Catherine Marie Knight, with whom he had four sons.