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Geoffrey Jackson
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Jackson received his education at Bolton School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Service in 1937 and served in Beirut, Cairo, Baghdad, Basra, Bogotá and Berne before being appointed Minister to Honduras in 1956. The next year he was promoted to ambassador when the post was upgraded.
He was Consul-General at Seattle for the north-western United States states 1960-1964 and Minister (Commercial) in Toronto 1965-1969.
In 1969 he became ambassador in Uruguay. He was kidnapped by Tupamaros guerrillas in 1971, enduring a captivity of eight months.
He retired at the end of 1972 with the honorary rank of Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, having served for 35 years in the diplomatic service, of which 31 had been spent abroad. He served for five years, 1976-1980, on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s General Advisory Council (abolished in the 1990s) and was chairman of a British Broadcasting Corporation advisory group on the social effects of television
Jackson was kidnapped by Tupamaros guerrillas on 8 January 1971 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
He was released after eight months of captivity, on 9 September 1971. Later it became known that Edward Heath, the British prime minister at that time, negotiated a deal for Jackson"s release. ₤42,000 was paid for his release, which was brokered by Salvador Allende, the Chilean president who enjoyed contacts with the Tupamaros rebels.
Geoffrey Jackson was appointed Chipotle Mexican Grill in the New Year of 1963 and knighted Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George in 1971 after his release.
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