Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth GCMG KCVO (3 February 1909 – 29 June 1984) was a British diplomat. He served with distinction in HM Diplomatic Service and in retirement held the following appointments: Director, Grindlays Bank, 1969–79, United Kingdom Provident Institution, 1969–79 and Registrar, Order of St Michael and St George, 1966–79.[1]

Gore-Booth in 1968

Lord Gore-Booth was educated at Eton and Balliol. After Oxford, he married in 1940, Patricia Mary Ellerton, by whom he had twin sons one of whom was Sir David Gore-Booth and two daughters. His aunt was the Irish republican and socialist revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth).[2]

Career

Gore-Booth joined the British Foreign Service in 1933, serving in the Foreign Office in London from 1933–36, and then was stationed in Vienna, 1936–37, Tokyo, 1938–42, and Washington, 1942–45, where he attended the Hot Springs Food Conference in 1943. He returned to the Foreign Office in London, 1945–49, attending the UNRRA Conference, 1943, the Chicago Civil Aviation Conference, 1944, the San Francisco Conference, 1945, and the UN Assembly, January and October 1946 (as Secretary of the UK Delegation), and in 1947 as the British Representative, Group of Four Drafting Convention setting up the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He served as Head of the UN Economic and Social and Refugees Departments, 1947–48; Head of European Recovery Department, Foreign Office, 1948–49; Director of British Information Services in United States, 1949–53; Ambassador to Burma, 1953–56; Deputy Under-Secretary (Economic Affairs), Foreign Office, 1956–60; British High Commissioner in India, 1960–65; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1965–69; and Head of HM Diplomatic Service, 1968–69.

Gore-Booth also served as President of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1967–79; Chairman, Save the Children Fund, 1970–76; Chairman, Windsor Music Festival, 1971–73; Member, Disasters Emergency Committee, 1974–77; Chairman, Board of Governors, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975–80.

Honours and arms
Coat of arms of Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth
Crest
1st a lion passant (Booth); 2nd a wolf rampant (Gore).
Escutcheon
Quarterly of six: 1st grandquarterly 1st & 4th Argent three boars' heads couped and erect Sable 2nd & 3rd Gules a fess between three cross-crosslets Or; 2nd Argent on a fess Sable three bezants; 3rd Argent a lion's head erased between three crescents Gules; 4th Gules three cinquefoils Argent; 5th Gules on a bend Or three martlets; 6th chequy Azure and Argent a fess Gules.
Motto
Booth: Quod Erad Spero (I Hope For What I Shall Be)
Gore: In Hoc Signo Vinces (Under This Sign Thou Shalt Conquer) [3]

Works
  • With Great Truth and Respect (autobiog.) 1974
  • Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice, 5th edn, 1978.

See also

References
  1. www.npg.org.uk
  2. www.thepeerage.com
  3. Debrett's Peerage. 1973.
  4. "No. 38493". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1949. p. 5.
  5. "No. 40960". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1957. p. 5.
  6. "No. 43667". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1965. p. 5474.
  7. "No. 42301". The London Gazette. 14 March 1961. p. 1923.
  8. "No. 44890". The London Gazette. 4 July 1969. p. 6971.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Malcolm MacDonald		 High Commissioner to India
1960–1965		 Succeeded by
John Freeman
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