Education
Lord Gore-Booth was educated at Eton and Balliol.
Lord Gore-Booth was educated at Eton and Balliol.
Gore-Booth joined the British Foreign Service in 1933, serving FO 1933-1936. Vienna, 1936-1937; Tokyo, 1938-1942. Washington, 1942-1945.
FO, 1945-1949.
Head of United Nations (Economic and Social) and Refugees Depts, 1947-1948. Head of European Recovery Department, Foreign Office, 1948-1949. Director British Information Services in United States, 1949-1953.
Ambassador to Burma, 1953-1956.
Deputy Under-Secretary (Economic Affairs), Foreign Office, 1956-1960. British High Commissioner in India, 1960-1965.
Permanent Under-Secretary of State, FO, 1965-1969. Head of Her Majesty Diplomatic Service, 1968-1969.
Hot Springs Food Conference, 1943.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Conference, 1943. Chicago Civil Aviation Conference, 1944. San Francisco Conference, 1945.
United Nations Assembly, 1946 (Security of United Kingdom Delegation) January and October and 1947.
British Representative, Group of Four drafting Convention setting up Organization of European Cooperation and Development. Chairman: Save the Children Fund, 1970-1976. Disasters Emergency Committee, 1974-1977.
Chairman Board of Governors, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975-1980. President Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1967-1979.
Chairman, Windsor Music Festival, 1971-1973.
His aunt was the Irish republican and socialist revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth).