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Nationality
  
Australian

Occupation
  
Diplomat


Name
  
Stewart Jamieson

Alma mater
  
University of Sydney

Born
  
4 January 1903 (
1903-01-04
)
Sydney, New South Wales

Died
  
May 4, 1975, Canberra, Australia

Stewart Wolfe Jamieson CBE (4 January 1903 – 4 May 1975) was an Australian diplomat, journalist and lawyer.

After attending The King's School, Sydney, Jamieson graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts before studying law at the University of Oxford. He worked as a lawyer and journalist in the late 1920s and the 1930s, and enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II. After the war he joined Australia's diplomatic service. In a 20-year diplomatic career, he held a number of consular and ambassadorial posts, including as Australia's high commissioner to Ghana (1958–1960), ambassador to Brazil (1960–1962), ambassador to the Soviet Union (1962–1965) and Aabassador to Sweden (1964–1965).

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Stewart Wolfe Jamieson Wikipedia