(Book: Memoirs by UK Ambassador (ret.) Michael A. Wenner. ...)
Book: Memoirs by UK Ambassador (ret.) Michael A. Wenner. Forward by: Gen. & US Ambassador Vernon Walters, former head of CIA.
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1993
Ethnicity:
Father was of Swiss descent, of a family of textile magnates who came to England in Victorian times; his mother was a French musician from Marseilles, who became the first violinist of the Hallé under Sir John Barbarolli.
Michael Alfred Wenner was born on March 17, 1921 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Came to the United States in 1977. Son of Alfred Emil and Simone Marguerite (Roussel) Wenner.
Michael graduated from Stonyhurst College in 1939 (his 1939 scholarship delayed by WWII service). He studied as a Scholar at Oriel College at Oxford University, England. In 1947 Michael received the Batchelor of Arts in Modern Languages. In 1952 he became degree a Master of Arts in Modern Languages. He studied at London Business School in 1970's.
Michael worked as a third secretary in British Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden from 1948 to 1951. He was second secretary in Washington, United States from 1951 to 1953. First secretary in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1956 to 1959. Head of chancery La Paz, Bolivia, 1959-1961, Vienna, Austria, 1961-1963. Member American Department Foreign Office, London, 1953-1955. Inspector diplomatic establishments worldwide, 1964-1967. British Ambassador to El Salvador, San Salvador, 1967-1970. Founder, Academia Britaníca Cuzcatleca (ABC), Latin American Republican-Designate Thomas De La Rue Ltd., 1971-1972. Deputy head energy department Rio Tinto Zinc, London, 1974-1975. Vice-president Micron Corporation, Houston, 1977-1981. Commercial and economic advisor Consulate General of Switzerland, Houston, 1984-1991. President, Wenner Communications, Houston, 1992-2008.
(Book: Memoirs by UK Ambassador (ret.) Michael A. Wenner. ...)
1993(These stories are written mainly, though not exclusively,...)
1996Michael Wenner was an early supporter of the pioneering "Anglican Use/ Pastoral Provision" (Precursor of the Anglican Ordinariate) which began with Vatican approval in Texas in the 1980s.
After he retired to the UK, the Ordinariate was instituted in the UK (2010) and the USA (2012); he has continued to support both.
Michael Wenner and his wife in 2003 designed and donated their Family memorial "Nature Window" featuring the Wenner family device, a winnowing basket, in the east wall of the narthex of Houston's Ordinariate Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham.
They are the first "cradle" Catholics to be members of both the UK and USA Anglican Ordinariate. Mrs Wenner is a member of the British National parish council.
In the USA Michael Wenner is a Republican of libertarian tendencies. In the UK he grew increasingly skeptical of the UK's continued membership in the European Union, which he saw as neo-fascist. His views as an American Citizen are influenced by his study and appreciation of Texas history & culture, and he considers himself an ardent Texan.
Michael Wenner considers himself a Catholic internationalist, and is concerned with preserving national sovereignty and freedom of speech and religion.
Life Member.
Oxford Union , United Kingdom
Honorary Life Member.
Houston Consular Corps , United States
Lancashire Fusiliers, 151 /156 Parachute Battalion, Scottish Commando. He demobilised with the rank of Captain.
British Army , UK
1940 - 1945
He was a volunteer teacher.
Institute of Catholic Cultural Studies , Houston
1996 - 2008
Sunrise Toastmasters
Houston Choral Society
Meyers-Briggs personality type: ESTJ ("Born Administrator").
Physical Characteristics:
5'7" 180 lbs, hazel eyes, greying brown hair; wears glasses. Slight limp from war wound. Physically fit; Prize-winning long-distance runner at Stonyhurst College;
Won a "Full Blue" boxing for Oxford in 1948.
Skilled horseman and swimmer; adept at sailing small boats and piloting light aircraft.
Quotes from others about the person
"Michael Wenner speaks several languages* and makes sense in all of them"
-- Swiss Consul General Gilbert Schaeffli.
*[English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Urdu.].
Fly fishing, music, sailing, theater, choral singing, collecting oriental carpets, and old maps.
Harold Nicholson (diplomacy)
Konrad Z. Lorentz (ethologist).
Lord Oliver Franks (a mentor)
Gen. and Amb. Vernon Walters. (a friend)
Shakespeare; Moliere; Marie de France; Oscar Wilde; Graham Greene; William Manchester.
Rembrandt; Vermeer; Whistler; Matisse; Picasso; Henry Moore.
Michael married Gunilla Cecilia Ståhl (1931-1986) in Sweden on 16 March in 1950.
Children: Miles Peter, Charles Andrew, Christopher Max, Martin Nils Dominic.
Michael married Holly Adrianne (Raven) Johnson (1948- ) in Texas on 27 April 1990.
1931-1986
She was born in 1948.
World expert on Hybrid Aspen.
administrator, inspector. Adept skier.
