Background
PECK., Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George was born on February 16, 1913 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Son of Howard C. B. and Dorothea Peck.
PECK., Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George was born on February 16, 1913 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Son of Howard C. B. and Dorothea Peck.
Wellington College, and Corpus Christi, Oxford.
Assistant Private Secretary to First Lord of Admiralty 1937-1939, to Minister for Coordination of Defence 1939-1940, to Prime Minister 1940-1946. Transferred to Foreign Service 1946, served United Nations Department 1946-1947, The Hague 1947-1950. Counsellor and Head of Information Research Department 1951-1954.
Counsellor (Defence Liaison) and Head of Political Division, British Middle East Office 1954-1956.
Director-General British Information Sendees, New York 1956-1959. Permanent Representative to Council of Europe, and Consul-General, Strasbourg 1959-1962.
Ambassador to Senegal 1962-1966, and Mauritania 1962-1965. Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, later Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1966-1970.
Ambassador to Ireland 1970-1973.
Married 1st Mariska Caroline Somlo in 1939 (died in 1979). Married 2nd Catherine McLaren in 1987.