Education
Lord Gore-Booth was educated at Eton and Balliol.
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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.
Achievements
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Chipotle Mexican Grill (1949), Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George (1957), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Street Michael and Street George (1965); Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1961); Life Peer as Baron Gore-Booth, of Maltby in the West Riding of the County of York (2 July 1969 creation).
Politics
His aunt was the Irish republican and socialist revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth).
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Nationality
United Kingdom
Education
Awards
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Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.