Simon Featherstone
{{Short description|British diplomat (1958–2014)}}
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Simon Mark Featherstone {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (24 July 1958 – 26 August 2014) was a British diplomat whose posts included High Commissioner to Malaysia.
Career
Simon Featherstone was educated at Whitgift School and Lincoln College, Oxford.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1980 and after language training at SOAS and in Hong Kong served in Beijing, Brussels and Shanghai.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
He was British ambassador to Switzerland and non-resident ambassador to Liechtenstein 2004–08, the Prime Minister's International Representative on Energy Issues in 2008, UK director for the 2010 Shanghai Expo (where the UK pavilion won the award for best pavilion design) and was British High Commissioner to Malaysia from October 2010 until ill health forced him to retire in May 2014.{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314175522/https://www.gov.uk/government/people/simon-featherstone |archivedate=14 March 2014 |url=http://www.gov.uk/government/people/simon-featherstone |title=Simon Featherstone CMG |website=gov.uk |accessdate=2016-12-17}}
While in Malaysia, he was also one of the patrons of the British Theatre Playhouse, a theatrical and musical production company that works with British entertainment shows.{{cite web |url=http://www.britishtheatreplayhouse.com/patrons.html |title=Patrons - Professional theatre production company incorporated in Singapore in 2004 but is internationally focused with a strong British connection - SISTIC |publisher=British Theatre Playhouse |accessdate=2016-12-15 |archive-date=26 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926090044/https://www.britishtheatreplayhouse.com/patrons.html |url-status=dead }}
Featherstone was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the New Year Honours of 2011.{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |supp=y |page=3 |date=31 December 2010}}
References
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- [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U15570 FEATHERSTONE, Simon Mark], Who's Who 2014, online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924051728/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/23963/Simon-Mark-FEATHERSTONE Simon Featherstone, Esq, CMG Authorised Biography], Debrett's People of Today.{{failed verification|date=June 2020}}
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{{S-ttl |title=Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein |years=2004–2008}}
{{S-aft |after=John Nichols}}
{{S-bef |before=Boyd McCleary}}
{{S-ttl |title=High Commissioner to Malaysia |years=2010–2014}}
{{S-aft |after=Victoria Treadell}}
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Category:20th-century British diplomats
Category:21st-century British diplomats
Category:Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Liechtenstein
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland
Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Consuls-general for the United Kingdom in Shanghai
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malaysia
Category:People educated at Whitgift School
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