John Addis

John Mansfield Addis was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the Foreign Office in 1938.{{London Gazette |issue=34560 |page=6365 |date=11 October 1938}} After postings at Nanking, Peking and the Foreign Office, he was ambassador to Laos 1960–62;{{London Gazette |issue=42001 |page=2467 |date=5 April 1960}} Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs 1962–63; ambassador to the Philippines 1963–70;{{London Gazette |issue=43135 |page=8490 |date=18 October 1963}} Senior Civilian Instructor at the Imperial Defence College 1970–71; and ambassador to China 1972–74. After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, Addis was Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, 1975–82. He was a trustee of the British Museum.

Addis was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1959{{London Gazette |issue=41589 |supp=y |page=5 |date=1 January 1959}} and knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1973.{{London Gazette |issue=45860 |supp=y |page=4 |date=1 January 1973}}

:Sir John Addis will be remembered with gratitude, respect and affection at the British Museum. His gift in 1975 of twenty-three pieces of early Chinese porcelain of superb quality and importance was not only one of the Museum's major benefactions this century but also a carefully thought out addition to the existing collections, every piece having been deliberately chosen in advance to fill gaps in the permanent exhibition.
— Lawrence Smith, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities, British MuseumLawrence Smith, [http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS170495240&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir John Addis], The Times, London, 8 August 1983, page 10

• The India-China border question, Harvard University, 1963.{{cite web | title=The India-China border question | website=WorldCat.org | url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/india-china-border-question/oclc/659774387 | access-date=9 May 2024}}
• Chinese ceramics from datable tombs, Philip Wilson Publishers, 1978. {{ISBN|0856670391}}

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• [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U161364 ADDIS, Sir John (Mansfield)], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
• [http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS203394306&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir John Addis] (obituary), The Times, London, 2 August 1983, page 12
• [https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=145918 Sir John M Addis (Biographical details)], British Museum

• [http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb102-ppms25 Addis, Sir John Mansfield] – archive material listed at the Archives Hub
• Papers relating to the diplomatic career and scholarly interests of Sir John Mansfield Addis are held at [http://archives.soas.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=PP+MS+25&pos=13 SOAS Archives]

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