Nicholas Fenn
{{Short description|British diplomat}}
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Sir Nicholas Maxted Fenn {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG}} (19 February 1936 – 18 September 2016)[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=nicholas-maxted-fenn&pid=181460449 Nicholas Maxted Fenn] was a British diplomat. He was High Commissioner to India from 1991 to 1996.
Fenn served as a RAF pilot in the 1950s before his diplomatic and civil service career.https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316202529/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf |date=16 March 2016 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} Fenn later studied at Cambridge University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909202644/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 September 2015|title=Sir Nicholas (Maxted) Fenn GCMG}}
He lived in Marden, Kent.[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/09/sir-nicholas-fenn-obituary Sir Nicholas Fenn obituary] Retrieved 23/4/21.
Career
Fenn entered the Foreign Office in 1959 and worked as secretaries at various posts overseas, spokesperson at the FCO and as counselor at the British Embassy in Peking. Fenn was fluent in Burmese after undergoing training in 1960 and assigned to Burma in the early 1960s.
Fenn's ambassadorships included Rangoon (1982-1986) and Dublin (1986-1991). Fenn retired in 1996.{{cite news | url=http://us.swanhellenic.com/speaker.html?cruiseid=18669&areaid=13424&hot=&speakerid=370 | title=Biographical details | accessdate=October 25, 2012 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203115450/http://us.swanhellenic.com/speaker.html?cruiseid=18669&areaid=13424&hot=&speakerid=370 | archive-date=February 3, 2013 | url-status=dead }} Following his career with the diplomatic service Fenn served as chief executive of Marie Curie, from 1997 to 2000, after retiring as chief executive he continued to serve the charity as chair of its council of trustees until 2006.{{cite web |title=Sir Nicholas Fenn, diplomat at the heart of great events – obituary |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=22 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701150431/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/22/sir-nicholas-fenn-diplomat-at-the-heart-of-great-events--obituar/ |archive-date=1 July 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/22/sir-nicholas-fenn-diplomat-at-the-heart-of-great-events--obituar/}}
From 1972 to 1975 he was with the Energy Department (as Deputy Head) in the Foreign Office and at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1978.https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316202529/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf |date=16 March 2016 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}
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{{succession box |title=British Ambassador to Burma |before=Charles Booth|after=Martin Morland|years=1982–1986}}
{{succession box | before = Alan Goodison | title = British Ambassador to Ireland | years= 1986–1991| after = David Blatherwick}}
{{s-bef| before = Sir David Goodall }}
{{s-ttl| title = High Commissioner to India | years = 1991–1996 }}
{{s-aft| after = Sir David Gore-Booth}}
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Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ireland
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to India
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Myanmar
Category:People from Marden, Kent
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