Anne Warburton

Anne Marion Warburton was educated at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Somerville College, Oxford University. She worked at the London office of the Economic Cooperation Administration (1949–1952), at the NATO Secretariat, then located in Paris (1952–1954) and for Lazard Brothers in London (1955–1957). In 1958, she entered the Diplomatic Service in Branch A (the senior branch){{London Gazette |issue=42001 |page=2467 |date=5 April 1960}} and, after two years at the Foreign Office, was posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations at New York City (1959–1962) during which she was promoted to First Secretary. She served at the British embassy at Bonn (1962–1965) and then in the newly created Diplomatic Service Administration Office in London (1965–1967). She then moved back to the Foreign Office, which became the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1968, until 1970 when she was posted as Counsellor to the UK's Geneva Mission to the United Nations. After a further period at the FCO as head of the Guidance and Information Policy Department (1975–1976), she was appointed British Ambassador to Denmark in April 1976{{London Gazette |issue=46943 |page=8773 |date=24 June 1976}} and remained there until 1983.

Warburton was the first female British ambassador.[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e936c88-c9ad-11de-a071-00144feabdc0.html Britain’s first female diplomats], Financial Times, London, 6 November 2009 Although Barbara Salt had been appointed ambassador-designate to Israel in 1962, she was unable to proceed to Tel Aviv because of a serious illness and so did not take up the post.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1960.shtml "Women's history timeline" (1962)], BBC Radio 4 archive; accessed 16 October 2014. Eleanor Emery was British High Commissioner to Botswana from 1973 to 1977, corresponding to an ambassador but within the Commonwealth.

After leaving Denmark, Warburton was ambassador and UK permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva (1983–1985). She was deputy leader of the UK delegation to the third UN World Conference on Women at Nairobi in July 1985, which closed the United Nations Decade for Women. She retired from the Diplomatic Service and was president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (1985–1994). Concurrently, she was a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission (1986–1988), of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994–1997), and of the Council of the University of East Anglia.[http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/5174/all/1/Anne_Warburton.aspx Anne Warburton] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515050523/http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/5174/all/1/Anne_Warburton.aspx |date=15 May 2014 }}, Somerville College, Oxford

Warburton led a European Community investigative mission into the treatment of Muslim women in the former Yugoslavia, which reported in January 1993.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130510115243/http://archives.liv.ac.uk/ead/html/gb141boda-p12.shtml Report on rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina to the EC foreign ministers by the EC Investigative Mission into the Treatment of Muslim Women in the Former Yugoslavia (28 January 1993)], The Balkan Odyssey Digital Archive, University of Liverpool

She died on 4 June 2015 at her home near Eye, Suffolk,[https://www.thetimes.com/article/dame-anne-warburton-qlqcf2rwkr9 Dame Anne Warburton], The Times, London, 9 June 2015 and is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's in Thornham Parva.

• Paying for NATO : how common finance can help the defence of the West (with John B. Wood), Friends of Atlantic Union, London, 1956
• Signposts to Denmark, Hernov, Copenhagen, 1992. ({{ISBN|8759022086}})

Anne Warburton was appointed CVO in 1965{{London Gazette |issue=43691 |page=5981 |date=22 June 1965}} and CMG in 1977.{{London Gazette |issue=47234 |supp=y |page=7083 |date=10 June 1977}} She was made Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1979.{{London Gazette |issue=47862 |page=7283 |date=8 June 1979}}

She was an Honorary Fellow of her alma mater, Somerville College, Oxford, and of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Columbia University awarded her a Barnard Medal of Distinction.[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss28/record2128.13.html Commencement '96], Columbia University Record, 24 May 1996 The West German government awarded her the Verdienstkreuz (Merit Cross), 1st Class, in 1965 for her service at Bonn. She also held the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) and the Lazo de Dama (Dame's Ribbon) of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain).[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U38819 WARBURTON, Dame Anne (Marion)], Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014

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• [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11662733/Dame-Anne-Warburton-diplomat-obituary.html Dame Anne Warburton, diplomat - obituary], The Telegraph, London, 9 June 2015

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