Tony Small Explained

Tony Small
Birth Name:Francis Anthony Small
Birth Date:28 August 1930
Office:New Zealand Ambassador to Austria
Successor:Hugo Judd
Office2:New Zealand Ambassador to China
Term Start2:1982
Term End2:1985
Predecessor2:Harle Freeman-Greene
Successor2:Lindsay Johnstone Watt
Office3:New Zealand Ambassador to Italy
Term End3:1990
Predecessor3:Gordon Parkinson
Successor3:Peter Robert Bennett

Francis Anthony Small (28 August 1930 – 24 February 2015) was a New Zealand diplomat.

In 1956 Small graduated Bachelor of Laws from Victoria University College.[1] In 1963 he was acting head of the legal division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1969 to 1976 he was New Zealand's deputy permanent representative at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.[2] From 19 December 1977 to 1982 he was ambassador in Vienna with accreditation in Warsaw, East Berlin and Budapest. From 1982 to 1985 he was ambassador in Beijing, and from 1986 to 1990 he was ambassador in Rome with accreditation in Madrid.[3]

Small died on 24 February 2015, and was buried at Clareville Cemetery, Carterton.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Harvard Law School, The Graduate Program at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, 1956 https://books.google.com/books?id=fEE7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Francis+Anthony+Small%22
  2. Office of the Historian, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v05/persons
  3. The Agency, Weekly Bulletin, 1978, p. 17 Neues Deutschland, 20.06.1978 - Der Vorsitzende des Ministerrates der DDR, Willi Stoph, empfing am Montag den Außerordentlichen und Bevollmächtigten Botschafter der Ungarischen Volks Republik in der DDR, Jözsef Kádár, und den Außerordentlichen und Bevollmächtigten Botschafter Neuseelands, in der DDR, Francis Anthony Small, zu Antrittsbesuchen, https://www.nd-archiv.de/ausgabe/1978-06-20
  4. News: Francis Small death notice . 27 February 2015 . Hawkes Bay Today . 21 January 2017.