Sir Francis Rundall | |
Office: | British Ambassador to Japan |
Term Start: | 1963 |
Term End: | 1967 |
Predecessor: | Oscar Morland |
Successor: | John Arthur Pilcher |
Primeminister: | Alec Douglas-Home Harold Wilson |
Office1: | British Ambassador to Israel |
Term Start1: | 1957 |
Term End1: | 1959 |
Predecessor1: | John Walter Nicholls |
Successor1: | Patrick Hancock |
Monarch1: | Elizabeth II |
Primeminister1: | Harold Macmillan |
Office2: | Her Majesty's Consul-General in New York |
Term Start2: | 1953 |
Term End2: | 1957 |
Predecessor2: | Henry Hobson |
Successor2: | Hugh Stephenson |
Monarch2: | Elizabeth II |
Primeminister2: | Winston Churchill Anthony Eden |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1908 |
Birth Place: | Kent, England |
Education: | Marlborough College |
Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge University of Berlin |
Sir Francis Brian Anthony Rundall (11 September 1908 – 7 July 1987) was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to Israel from 1957 to 1959 and British Ambassador to Japan from 1963 to 1967.
Rundall was born in Kent, England[1] on 11 September 1908. He was educated at Marlborough College, followed by the University of Cambridge[2] and the University of Berlin.[1]
Rundall entered the Diplomatic Service in 1930[2] as a consular officer.[1] He subsequently served as Head of the North American Department of the Foreign Office from 1947 to 1948, Head of the United Nations (Economic and Social) Department and Refugee Department of the Foreign Office from 1948 to 1949, an inspector from 1949 to 1953, New York Consul-General from 1953 to 1957, Ambassador to Israel from 1957 to 1959, Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Chief Clerk from 1959 to 1963 and Ambassador to Japan from 1963 to 1967.[3]
He was appointed a GCMG on 1 January 1968.
Rundall married Mary Syrett on 26 January 1935.[4] His hobby was trout fishing. By 1956 he lived at 1 Beekman Place in New York and had two children being schooled in England.[1] He died on 7 July 1987.[2]