SIS Ramsbotham, Peter Edward

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Ramsbotham
  • FORENAME
Peter Edward
  • UNIT
MI5
  • RANK
Lieutenant Colonel
  • NUMBER
322544
  • AWARD
Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre (France)
  • PLACE
WW2
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Intelligence Corps
born 8.10.1919 Kensington,London
son of Herwald and Doris Violet Sinauer (nee de Stein) Ramsbotham
father became 1st Viscount Soulbury 1954
educated Eton College
graduated Magdalen College,Oxford
commissioned Intelligence Corps 9.6.1944 (until 1948)
MI5 (B3a Section,E3 Section and E1a Section) 1941-43
MI5 (106 Special Counter Intelligence Unit) (SCIU)
Political Division of the Control Commissions for Germany and Austria 1946
Foreign Office,London (German Department) 1948
High Commissioner to Cyprus 1969-71
Ambassador to Iran 1971-74
Ambassador to USA 1974-77
Governor of Bermuda 1977-80
awards CMG 1964,KCMG 1972,GCMG 1978,GCVO 1976
succeeded as 3rd Viscount Soulbury 2004
married Frances Marie Massie Blomfield 30.8.1941 (1919-82)
married Zaida Mary Hall (nee Megrah) 6.7.1985 (1925-2013)
died 9.4.2010 New Alresford,Hampshire
St Peter Churchyard,Ovington,Winchester,Hampshire
 
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