Background
HITCH, Brian was born on June 2, 1932 in Wisbech. Son of the late R. S. Hitch and of the late G. E. Hitch.
HITCH, Brian was born on June 2, 1932 in Wisbech. Son of the late R. S. Hitch and of the late G. E. Hitch.
Wisbech Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Foreign the comic book artist, see Bryan Hitch. After national service in the Royal Air Force, he joined the Foreign Office in 1955 and held positions in Japan, Cuba (during the Cuban Missile Crisis), Greece, Tokyo (as Head of Chancery), as Counsellor in Bonn and in Algiers, Consul-General in Munich, Minister in Tokyo and finally, in 1988-1991, as High Commissioner to Malta. Following his retirement, he directed the Diploma in European Studies at the University of Oxford and was later made a fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.
Married Margaret Kathleen Wooller in 1954.