Background
DODSON, Derek Sherborne Lindsell was born on January 20, 1920 in Cambridge. Son of Charles Sherborne Dodson and Irene Frances Lindsell.
DODSON, Derek Sherborne Lindsell was born on January 20, 1920 in Cambridge. Son of Charles Sherborne Dodson and Irene Frances Lindsell.
Stowe School, Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Assistant to British Commander, Allied Control Commission, for Bulgaria 1945^16. Second Secretary, Foreign Office 1947-1948. Vice-Consul, Salonika, Greece 1948-1950.
In British Embassy to Spain 1950-1953.
At Foreign Office 1953-1958. Head of Chancery, Embassy to Czechoslovakia 1958-1962.
Consul, Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi), Zaire 1962-1963. Head of Central Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1963-1966.
Counsellor, Embassy to Greece 1966-1969.
Ambassador to Hungary 1970-1973, to Brazil 1973-1977, to Turkey 1977-1980. Special Representative of Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary since 1981. Governor United World College, of the Atlantic since 1982.
Chairman Anglo-Turkish Society since 1982, Beaver Guarantee Limited.
1984-1986; Director Benguela Railway Company since 1984. Deputy Lieutenant, for Lincolnshire since 1988.
Grand Cross of Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil).
Married Julie Maynard Barnes in 1952.