John Snodgrass (diplomat)

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Name John Snodgrass		Role Diplomat

John Michael Owen Snodgrass CMG (12 August 1928 – 4 February 2008) was a British diplomat.

He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA).

Position held

3rd Sec., Rome, 1953–1956

1st Sec., Beirut, 1960–1963

Consul-General to Jerusalem, 1970-74.

Counsellor British Embassy, South Africa, 1974-77.

Head of South Pacific, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1977-80.

Ambassador to Zaire, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, 1980-83.

Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1983-86.

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