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Transcript of interview: Sir Mark Lyall Grant, 2019

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 188

Scope and Contents

From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates

  • Creation: 2019

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.

Biographical / Historical

Mark Lyall Grant was born 29 May 1956, son of Major-General I. H. Lyall Grant. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, University of Cambridge (MA Law). In 1986, he married Sheila Jean Tresise, having one son and one daughter.

Lyall Grant was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1980, but chose to join the Foreign and Commonwealth Office instead. His diplomatic career included the following posts: Urdu language training, SOAS and Lahore, 1981; Second Secretary, Islamabad, 1982-85; FCO, Southern European Department and Resident Clerk, 1985-86, European Union Department, Internal, 1986-87; Private Secretary to Minister of State, FCO, 1987-89; First Secretary, Paris [France], 1990-93; FCO, European Union Department, External, 1993; seconded to European Secretariat, Cabinet Office, 1994-96; Deputy High Commissioner and Consul General, South Africa, 1996-98; Head, EU Department (Internal), FCO, 1998-2000; Africa Director, FCO, 2000-03; High Commissioner to Pakistan, 2003-06; Political Director, FCO, 2007-09; Permanent Representative to the UN, 2009-15; National Security Adviser, 2015-17.

Extent

1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Originator(s)

Grant, Sir Mark Justin Lyall, b 1956, Knight, diplomat

Finding aid date

2020-01-28 10:31:12.620000+00:00

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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