Tony Small

{{short description|New Zealand diplomat}}

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| birth_name = Francis Anthony Small

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|08|28|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|02|24|1930|08|28|df=y}}

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| office = New Zealand Ambassador to Austria

| term_start = {{dts|1977|12|19|format=dmy}}

| term_end = {{dts|1982|01|01|format=dmy}}

| predecessor = Basil Bolt

| successor = Hugo Judd

| office2 = New Zealand Ambassador to China

| term_start2 = 1982

| term_end2 = 1985

| predecessor2 = Harle Freeman-Greene

| successor2 = Lindsay Johnstone Watt

| office3 = New Zealand Ambassador to Italy

| term_start3 = {{dts|1986|05|02|format=dmy}}

| term_end3 = 1990

| predecessor3 = Gordon Parkinson

| successor3 = Peter Robert Bennett

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Francis Anthony Small (28 August 1930 – 24 February 2015) was a New Zealand diplomat.

In 1956 Small graduated Bachelor of Laws from Victoria University College.Harvard Law School, The Graduate Program at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, 1956 [https://books.google.com/books?id=fEE7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Francis+Anthony+Small%22] In 1963 he was acting head of the legal division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1969 to 1976 he was New Zealand's deputy permanent representative at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.Office of the Historian, [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v05/persons] From 19 December 1977 to 1982 he was ambassador in Vienna with accreditation in Warsaw, East Berlin and Budapest. From 1982 to 1985 he was ambassador in Beijing, and from 1986 to 1990 he was ambassador in Rome with accreditation in Madrid.The Agency, Weekly Bulletin, 1978, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QnAoAQAAIAAJ&q=Francis+Anthony+Small+Hungary p. 17] Neues Deutschland, 20.06.1978 - Der Vorsitzende des Ministerrates der DDR, Willi Stoph, empfing am Montag den Außerordentlichen und Bevollmächtigten Botschafter der Ungarischen Volks Republik in der DDR, Jözsef Kádár, und den Außerordentlichen und Bevollmächtigten Botschafter Neuseelands, in der DDR, Francis Anthony Small, zu Antrittsbesuchen, [https://www.nd-archiv.de/ausgabe/1978-06-20]

Small died on 24 February 2015, and was buried at Clareville Cemetery, Carterton.{{cite news | url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hawkesbaytoday-nz/obituary.aspx?pid=174262410 | title=Francis Small death notice | date=27 February 2015 | work=Hawkes Bay Today | accessdate=21 January 2017}}