John Thorold MASEFIELD

Background

MASEFIELD, John Son of Doctor Geoffrey Bussell Masefield and Mildred Joy Thorold Rogers.

Education

Repton School, Derbyshire, Saint John"s College Cambridge.

Career

Joined Commonwealth Relations Office 1962, Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary 1963-1964, Second Secretary Kuala Lumpur 1964-1965, Warsaw 1966-1967, Ecology 1967-1969, First Secretary United Kingdom Delegate to Disarmament Conference, Geneva 1970-1974, Deputy Head Planning Staff. Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1974-1977, Far Eastern Department 1977-1979, Counsellor, Head of Chancery, Consul-General Islamabad 1979-1982, Head Personnel Services Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1982-1985, Head Far Eastern Department 1985-1987, Fellow Center for Institute Affairs, Harvard University 1982-1988, High Commissioner in Tanzania since 1989.

Interests

• Fruit and vegetables.

Connections

Married Jennifer Mary Trowell in 1962.

Father:

Doctor Geoffrey Bussell Masefield

Mother:

Mildred Joy Thorold Rogers

Spouse:

Jennifer Mary Trowell