Background
Tatham, David Everard was born on June 28, 1939. Son of Francis Everard Tatham and Eileen Mary Wilson.
government official diplomatic consultant
Tatham, David Everard was born on June 28, 1939. Son of Francis Everard Tatham and Eileen Mary Wilson.
David Everard Tatham was educated at Street Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Wadham College, Oxford.
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1960 and served at New York, Milan and, after studying at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, at Jeddah, Muscat and Dublin as well as at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Tatham retired from the Diplomatic service on leaving Sri Lanka and was adviser on diplomatic training to the Palestinian Authority in 2000. He was district manager for the 2001 United Kingdom census in the area of Ledbury (where he lived) and Ross-on-Wye, and then embarked on the Dictionary of Falklands Biography, including South Georgia, which was published in 2008 (). He has been chairman of the Falkland Islands Shackleton Scholarship Fund in the United Kingdom since 1999, and was chairman of the Falkland Islands Association 2004-2011.
Tatham was among 52 senior British diplomats who in 2004 signed a letter to Tony Blair, then British Prime Minister, criticising his Middle East policy.
The letter was described as "unprecedented in scope and scale".
He was Ambassador to the Yemen Arab Republic and concurrently to the Republic of Djibouti 1984-1987. Head of the Falkland Islands department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1987-1990. Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic 1990-1992.
Governor of the Falkland Islands (and commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) 1992-1996. And High Commissioner to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and concurrently to the Republic of Maldives 1996-1999.
Chairman United Kingdom committee Shackleton Scholarship Fund, Falkland Islands Association.
Married Valerie Ann Mylechreest, 1963. 3 children.