Eleanor Emery

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Eleanor Emery, CMG (23 December 1918 – 22 June 2007)Eleanor Emery. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 July 2007; pg. 55; Issue 69060 was High Commissioner to Botswana from 1973Court Circular. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 5 May 1973; pg. 14; Issue 58774 to 1977: the first British woman to reach that rank.[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2079858.ece The Times]

She was born in Glasgow[http://www.heraldscotland.com/eleanor-emery-1.840354 Glasgow Herald] but educated at Western Canada High School; and the University of Glasgow.[http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/image/?id=UGSP01252 University web-site] She joined the Dominions Office in 1941{{cite web |title=Eleanor Emery |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=17 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919233341/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1557632/Eleanor-Emery.html |archive-date=19 September 2016 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1557632/Eleanor-Emery.html}} and was Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State from 1942 to 1945. After that she served in Bechuanaland[http://www.thuto.org/ubh/bw/colad/coloff.htm Bechuanaland Colonial Administrators c.1884-c.1965] Ottawa,[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/41534045/ 13 November 1964 The Ottawa Journal] New Delhi and Pretoria. Appointed an Officer of HM Diplomatic Service in 1966,[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/43994/page/6128/data.pdf London Gazette] she was Head of the South Asia Department at the CRO then the Pacific Dependent Territories Department before her Botswana appointment. She was Governor of the Commonwealth Institute from 1980 to 1985.'EMERY, Eleanor Jean', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U14983, accessed 30 March 2015]