Background
Poston was born in 1945 in Street Albans, a city in southern Hertfordshire, England.
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Jim Poston
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University of Exeter.
Career
Poston succeeded acting Governor Cynthia Astwood on 16 December 2002. He was the son of an Anglican priest and a social worker He was educated at the Perse School in Cambridge before going on to attend Exeter University, where he studied French and history.
After graduating in 1970, he joined the Foreign Office.
Poston served as the British consul general to New England from 1995 until 1999. While there, he arranged for the then Unionist leader David Trimble to visit and meet local Irish-Americans.
He also served the Foreign Office in Brussels, Israel, Nigeria, and South Africa. Poston died on 13 October 2007 at the age of 62.
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United Kingdom