Education
Street Catharine"s College. Sherborne School.
Street Catharine"s College. Sherborne School.
Educated at Sherborne School and Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge,
Daunt was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1955 and posted to the 8th King"s Royal Irish Hussars. After completing national service, he joined the diplomatic service and, after a series of postings, became Permanent Representative to North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels in 1982 and then British Ambassador to Turkey from 1986 to his retirement in 1992. In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Manitoba
He later became chairman of the Ottoman Fund, a business established to provide mortgages for properties in Turkey.