Robin McLaren

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Robin McLaren

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}

| image = Sir Robin McLaren.jpg

| caption = McLaren in Beijing

| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|8|14|df=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|7|20|1934|8|14|df=y}}

| education = Ardingly College

| alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge

| office = British Ambassador to China

| predecessor = Sir Alan Donald

| successor = Sir Leonard Appleyard

| term_start = 1991

| term_end = 1994

| monarch = Elizabeth II

| primeminister = John Major

| president = Yang Shangkun
Jiang Zemin

| office1 = British Ambassador to the Philippines

| predecessor1 = Michael Morgan

| successor1 = Keith MacInnes

| term_start1 = 1985

| term_end1 = 1987

| monarch1 = Elizabeth II

| primeminister1 = Margaret Thatcher

}}

Sir Robin John Taylor McLaren {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} (14 August 1934 – 20 July 2010Leung, Ambrose (23 July 2010). "OBITUARY – Robin McLaren, 1934–2010: The diplomat who helped smooth a path for Hong Kong's handover", South China Morning Post) was a British diplomat.

Education

Robin McLaren was educated at Ardingly College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational), in the village of Ardingly (near Haywards Heath) in West Sussex, followed by St John's College, Cambridge, and the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Life and career

McLaren was Chairman of Governors at Ardingly College, where the McLaren Library is named after him. He served in the Royal Navy from 1953 to 1955, and entered the Foreign Service in 1958. He held a range of diplomatic posts between 1958 and 1994, including being Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Edward Heath between 1963 and 1964. He went on to serve as British Ambassador to the Philippines between 1985 and 1987. He was senior British representative on the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group between 1987 and 1989, and British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China between 1991 and 1994.{{cite web |url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%2015|title=British Diplomatic History|accessdate=2008-05-16}} He was made {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} in 1991, having been made CMG in 1982.

Honours

{{flag|United Kingdom}} :
50px Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) – Sir (1991)

References

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7917433/Sir-Robin-McLaren.html Sir Robin McLaren], obituary, The Telegraph, 29 July 2010

External links

[https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%2015 Interview with Sir Robin John Taylor McLaren] & [https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/McLaren.pdf transcript], British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1996

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before=Michael Morgan|

title=British Ambassador to the Philippines|

years=1985–1987|

after=Keith MacInnes

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{{succession box|

before=Sir Alan Donald|

title=British Ambassador to China|

years=1991–1994|

after=Sir Leonard Appleyard

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