Robert Gordon (ambassador) explained

Robert Gordon (ambassador) should not be confused with Robert Gordon (diplomat).

Robert Anthony Eagleson Gordon (born 9 February 1952) is a former British Ambassador to Burma (1995[1] - 1999) and Vietnam (2003 - 2007).

Gordon was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Magdalen College, Oxford. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1973. He served in Warsaw, Santiago and Paris before his ambassadors' appointments.[2]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1598747.html The Independent
  2. ‘GORDON, Robert Anthony Eagleson’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, November 2016 accessed 18 January 2017