Background
JOHNSTON, John Bainesl. Knight Giand Cross of St. Michael and St. George K.c.v.o. was born on May 13, 1918.
JOHNSTON, John Bainesl. Knight Giand Cross of St. Michael and St. George K.c.v.o. was born on May 13, 1918.
Banbury Grammar School and Queen"s College, Oxford.
Assistant Principal Colonial Office 1947, Principal 1948. Assistant Secretary West. African Council, Accra 1950-1951. United Kingdom Liaison Officer, Commission, for Technology Company-operation in Africa South of the Sahara 1952.
Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Colonies 1953, Assistant Secretary 1956, Head of Far Eastern Department, Colonial Office 1956.
Transferred to Commonwealth Relations Office 1957, Deputy High Commissioner in South. Africa 1959-1961. High Commissioner in Sierra Leone 1961-1963, in Federation Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1963, in Rhodesia 1964-1965.
Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Office 1966-1968, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968-1971. High Commissioner in Malaysia 1971-1974, in Canada 1974-1978.
Government of British Broadcasting Corporation 1978-1985.
Chairman ARELS Examinations Trust.
Disasters Emergency Committee.
Married Elizabeth Mary Crace in 1969.