Background
ALLINSON, Walter was born on May 1, 1926 in London. Son of Walter and Alice Frances (Cassidy) Allinson.
ALLINSON, Walter was born on May 1, 1926 in London. Son of Walter and Alice Frances (Cassidy) Allinson.
Friem Barnet Grammar School, Merton College, Oxford, Royal College, of Defence Studies.
Assistant Prill., Petroleum Division, Ministry of Fuel and Power 1947-1948. Assistant Principal, later Prill., Ministry of Education 1948-1958 (Assistant Private Secretary to Minister 1953-1954). First Secretary, Commonwealth Relations Office 1958-1960.
Served in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan 1960-1962, Madras and Delhi, India 1963-1966.
Deputy, later Head of Pennsylvania Under-Secretary’s Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968-1970.
Counsellor and Head of Chancery, later Deputy High Commissioner, Nairobi, Kenya 197073. Deputy High Commissioner and Minister, Delhi, India 1975-1978.
British High Commissioner, Lusaka, Zambia 1978-1980.
Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Africa) 1980-1982. High Commissioner in Kenya and Ambassador to United Nations Environment Programme 1982-1986. Vice-President Royal Africa Society since 1982.
Chairman Kenya Society since 1990.
Kenya Scouts.
Governing Council, British Institute in Eastern Africa since 1986.
Married Margaret Patricia Watts in 1951.