Stephen Barrett (diplomat)

Barrett was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO) in 1955{{London Gazette |issue=41637 |page=1164 |date=17 February 1959}} and served in Cyprus, Berlin, Helsinki, Prague and Ankara. He was briefly Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 1975. He was head of the British Interests Section at the Swedish Embassy in Tehran in 1981, Assistant Under-Secretary at the FCO 1981–84, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1985–88 and Ambassador to Poland 1988–91.

Barrett was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1982{{London Gazette |issue=48837 |page=4 |date=31 December 1981}} and knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1991.{{London Gazette |issue=52563 |supp=y |page=3 |date=15 June 1991}}

• Poland in transition : the return of the native, M.B. Grabowski memorial lecture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, 2001 (SSEES occasional papers, no. 54)

• [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U6639 BARRETT, Sir Stephen (Jeremy)], Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013

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Category:1931 births

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Category:People educated at Westminster School, London

Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford

Category:Principal Private Secretaries to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Czechoslovakia

Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Poland

Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

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