Peter Waterworth
{{short description|British barrister and diplomat}}
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Peter Andrew Waterworth (born 15 April 1957) is a British barrister and diplomat, who was the Governor of Montserrat from 2007 to 2011.{{cite news |title=Volcano residents back home |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2007/08/070823_montser.shtml |newspaper= BBC Caribbean |date=August 23, 2007 |access-date=May 1, 2011}}{{cite news |title=Groove Master laid to rest |url=http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/groove-master-laid-to-rest/ |newspaper=NationNews Barbados |date=October 1, 2010 |access-date=May 1, 2011}}
Biography
Waterworth is originally from Belfast and was schooled at Methodist College.{{cite news |title=Poll Winner |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=19 May 1977 |page=3}} He entered Durham University in 1975, reading for a law degree as a member of Hatfield College, graduating in 1978.{{cite web|title=Durham University gazette, XXIV (ns) including supplement|url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette24/dg24METS.xml#page/58/mode/2up|website=reed.dur.ac.uk|access-date=28 May 2018|language=en}} Waterworth was also Senior Man of Hatfield from 1977 to 1978.{{cite book |last1=Moyes |first1=Arthur |title=Hatfield 1846-1996 |date=1996 |page=287}} He later studied at Downing College, Cambridge, completing an LLM degree in 1982.{{cite book |title=Waterworth, Peter Andrew, (born 15 April 1957), HM Diplomatic Service, retired |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-247045 |website=UK Who's Who | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U247045 | isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |access-date=4 October 2018 |language=en }}
Career
Waterworth practised as a barrister from 1983 until 1987, when he joined the Foreign Office. He was an Assistant Legal Adviser from 1987 to 1990, before being posted to Bonn (which had until recently been the capital of West Germany) where he served until 1994. He then returned to London to work in the Middle East Department, and from 1996 to 2000 was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Rome. After a period in the Northern Ireland Office, Waterworth was Counsellor in Islamabad from 2003 to 2005 and Consul-General in Lagos from 2005 to 2007.
He was sworn in at the Legislative Council of Montserrat on 27 July 2007, 19 years to the day since he was last in Montserrat, when he served as a Foreign and Commonwealth Office legal adviser.
He has a wife, Catherine.
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References
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Category:Governors of Montserrat
Category:Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
Category:Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
Category:People educated at Methodist College Belfast
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