John Snodgrass (diplomat) explained

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

He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA).^[1]

Position held

• 3rd Sec., Rome, 1953–1956
• 1st Sec., Beirut, 1960–1963
• Consul-General to Jerusalem, 1970–74.^[2]
• 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.^[3]

References

• Book: John Michael Owen Snodgrass . Debrett's People of Today . . 2004.

Notes and References

1. ‘SNODGRASS, John Michael Owen’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014
2. Web site: Consuls-General to Jerusalem . 15 September 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041021080646/http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket%2FXcelerate%2FShowPage&c=Page&cid=1064571764229 . 21 October 2004 .
3. Web site: SNODGRASS, John Michael Owen . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 6 January 2014.