Rawdon Dalrymple

{{Short description|Australian public servant and diplomat}}

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| name = Rawdon Dalrymple

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AO}}

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| birth_name = Frederick Rawdon Dalrymple

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|11|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|09|29|1930|06|11|df=y}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/friend-of-hawke-was-ambassador-to-the-us-indonesia-and-israel-20231031-p5egdm.html|title=Friend of Hawke was ambassador to the US, Indonesia and Israel|first=Dennis|last=Richardson|date=31 October 2023|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}

| death_place = Australia

| occupation = Public servant, diplomat

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| alma_mater = University of Sydney
University of Oxford

| spouse = Ross Dalrymple (nee Williams)
(1957)

| nationality = Australian

|office = 17th Ambassador of Australia to
the United States

|term_start = 26 June 1985

|term_end = 1 April 1989

|predecessor = Bob Cotton

|successor = Michael Cook

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Frederick Rawdon Dalrymple {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (6 November 1930 – 29 September 2023) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.{{citation|url=http://sydney.edu.au/arts/government_international_relations/staff/academic_staff/rawdon_dalrymple.shtml|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514045501/http://sydney.edu.au/arts/government_international_relations/staff/academic_staff/rawdon_dalrymple.shtml|archivedate=14 May 2015|url-status=live|title=Rawdon Dalrymple|publisher=University of Sydney}}{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127002252|title=Ambassador's Timor trip cancelled|date=13 June 1984|page=3|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT}}{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127212933|title=Ambassador's report Timor visit 'too narrow'|date=9 July 1984|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|page=1}}{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118128252|title=Australia ready to go it alone|date=28 June 1986|page=1|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT|first=Hugh|last=Nevill}}

Dalrymple was born in Sydney and educated at Shore School in North Sydney and the University of Sydney. In 1951, he was selected as the New South Wales Rhodes scholar for 1952 and went on to study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18230446|title=Sydney Student Honoured|date=14 September 1951|page=13|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=NSW}}

Dalrymple joined the Department of External Affairs in 1957.{{citation|url=http://studentexchange.org.au/programs-overview/discounts-scholarships/rawdon-dalrymple-ao/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307004243/http://studentexchange.org.au/programs-overview/discounts-scholarships/rawdon-dalrymple-ao/|archivedate=7 March 2016|title=Rawdon Dalrymple AO}} He went on to appointments as Ambassador to Israel (1972–1975), Ambassador to Indonesia (1981–1985), Ambassador to the United States (1985–1989) and Ambassador to Japan (1989–1993).

In January 1987, Dalrymple was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of his public service as a diplomatic representative.{{citation|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885260|title=Search Australian Honours: DALRYMPLE, Frederick Rawdon, Officer of the Order of Australia|publisher=Australian Government|work=itsanhonour.gov.au|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314003956/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=885260&search_type=quick&showInd=true|archivedate=14 March 2016}}

In 1994, Dalrymple retired from the foreign affairs department (by then the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).

In May 2007, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Sydney. Among other things, the award cited his place as one of Australia's most distinguished post-war diplomats.See the full Citation at [http://sydney.edu.au/arms/archives/history/HonDalrymple.shtml University of Sydney, Honorary Awards, Rawdon Dalrymple, 18 May 2007].