Harry Eriksson

Eriksson was born on 20 October 1892 in Stockholm, Sweden.{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1957/0289.html |editor-last=Burling |editor-first=Ingeborg |year=1956 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1957 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1957 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |language=sv |page=265}}

Eriksson served as third chancery officer at the Consulate General in London in 1918,{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1918-04-28/4/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Konsulaten |trans-title=Consulates |page=4 |number=112 |date=28 April 1918 |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} as acting second vice consul there 1921, in Dublin in 1926, and consul there in 1930 (acting in 1926). He was appointed commercial counselor at the Swedish legation in Washington, D.C. in 1937. When Sweden established a legation in Pretoria, South Africa in 1944 and Eriksson was appointed Acting Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary,{{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/63364/gupea_2077_63364_1.pdf |title=Sveriges statskalender för året 1945 |year=1945 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=268}} and became a regular in 1945.{{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/64208/gupea_2077_64208_1.pdf |title=Sveriges statskalender för året 1946 |year=1946 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=275}} Eriksson then served as envoy in Tehran with a dual accreditation to Baghdad from 1948 to 1951. On 24 October 1949, Eriksson handed over his letter of credence to Governor General Khawaja Nazimuddin in Islamabad.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1949-10-25/4/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Officiellt |trans-title=Officially |page=4 |date=25 October 1949 |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} He served in Pakistan until 1951. During 1951, he served as envoy in Lima with a dual accreditation to La Paz. From 1952, Eriksson was placed on standby at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm.

In 1924, Eriksson married Signe Burman (1901–1957), with whom he had a son, Jan C Eriksson (born 1928).{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/norr68/0642.html |editor1-last=Davidsson |editor1-first=Åke |date=1968 |title=Vem är vem? |volume=5, Norrland : supplement, register |trans-title=Who's Who? |edition=2nd |location=Stockholm |publisher=Vem är vem bokförlag |language=sv |id={{SELIBR|53513}} |page=618}}

Eriksson died on 14 March 1957 in Stockholm. The funeral service was held on 21 March 1957 at Oscar's Church in Östermalm, Stockholm.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1957-03-16/2/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Döde |trans-title=Deaths |page=2A |date=16 March 1957 |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} He was interred on 21 March 1957 at Norra begravningsplatsen in Solna, near Stockholm. His wife Signe died two months later and was buried in the same grave.{{cite web |url=https://www.svenskagravar.se/gravsatt/fbbb3d68-2ab7-4535-a0e8-9972498aa10b |website=www.svenskagravar.se |title=Eriksson, Johan Fridolf Harry |access-date=27 July 2023 |lang=sv}}

• 50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Commander of the Order of the Polar Star (15 November 1944){{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/64222/gupea_2077_64222_1.pdf |title=Sveriges statskalender för året 1957 |year=1957 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=59}}
• 50px {{flagicon|Persia}} Grand Cross of the Order of Homayoun{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/statskal/1955/0083.html |title=Sveriges statskalender för året 1955 |year=1955 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Stockholm |language=sv |page=83}}
• 50px {{flagicon|Hungary}} Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit
• 50px {{flagicon|Finland}} Commander 1st Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland

• {{cite book

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|title=Irländska fristaten: En ekonomisk orientering |trans-title=The Irish Free State: An Economic Orientation

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