Education
Haydon Boyd Warren-Gash was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Haydon Boyd Warren-Gash was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 1971 and after language training at SOAS served at Ankara, Madrid and Paris as well as at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was deputy High Commissioner at Nairobi 1991-1994. Head of the Southern Europe department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1994-1997. Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Burkina Faso and Liberia 1997–2001 (during which he had to deal with a crisis when four Britons were among a group taken hostage by Liberian rebels).
Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania 2002-2005.
And Ambassador to Colombia 2005-2008. Warren-Gash is a lepidopterist.
While he was ambassador to Colombia he was accused of collecting rare butterflies without a licence, which he denied. He has described the following species:
Cymothoe hartigi vanessae
Euphaedra cyparissa nimbina
Euphaedra sarcoptera ferrea
Euphaedra sarcoptera styx
Euriphene taigola
Iolaus alexanderi
Lepidochrysops labeensis
Liptena bia
Liptena seyboui
Various species are named after Warren-Gash:
Baliochila warrengashi
Bebearia warrengashi
Euptera dorothea warrengashi
Pseudaletis agrippina warrengashi.