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Name
  
Sydney Giffard


Role
  
Diplomat

Books
  
Japan Among the Powers, 1890-1990

Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard (born 30 October 1926) is a British diplomat and author.

Contents

Early life

Giffard was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University.

Career

Giffard's career in the foreign service began in 1961.

He became the British Ambassador to Switzerland from 1980. He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984. In 1984-1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan.

Honors

  • Order of St Michael and St George, 1983
  • Order of the Rising Sun, 2003

    • Selected works

    In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Sydney Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.

  • Ai no Shogen (The Flowers are fallen) by Rinzō Shiina, 1961, translated from the Japanese by Giffard
  • Japan among the powers 1880-1990, 1994
  • Guns, kites and horses: three diaries from the Western front, 2003

    • References

    Sydney Giffard Wikipedia
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