Background
HAWLEY, Donald was born on May 22, 1921 in Essex. Son of the late F. G. and G. E. C. (nee Hills) Hawley.
diplomatist company chairman and consultant
HAWLEY, Donald was born on May 22, 1921 in Essex. Son of the late F. G. and G. E. C. (nee Hills) Hawley.
Radley, New College, Oxford.
Served with Her Majesty Forces 1941-1944. Sudan Political Service 47. Sudan Judiciary 1947-1955.
Foreign Office 1956-1958.
Her Majesty Political Agent, Trucial States 1958-1961: Head of Chancery British Embassy, Cairo 64. Counsellor, High Commission, Lagos 1965-1967.
Counsellor (Commercial), Baghdad 1968-1971. Ambassador to Sultanate of Oman 1971-1975.
Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975-1977.
High Commissioner to Malaysia 1977-1981. Member London Advisory Commission Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chairman The Centre for British Teachers.
Chairman Ewbank Preece Limited.
1982-1986; Chairman Anglo-Omani Society 1975-1977, Vice-President 1981. Chairman British-Malaysian Society 1983.
President, of Council Reading University since 1987.
Married Ruth Morwenna Graham in 1964.