David Merry

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David Byron Merry, [1] CMG (born 16 September 1945) was High Commissioner to Botswana from 2001 [2]

He was at the Ministry of Aviation from 1961 to 1965 when he entered the HM Diplomatic Service. He served in Bangkok, Budapest, Bonn, East Berlin, Manila and Karachi [3] before his Gaborone appointment. [4]

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References

  1. BRITISH AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS: 1880-2010
  2. Appointment. The Times (London, England), Saturday, June 11, 2005; pg. 77; Issue 68411
  3. BBC News
  4. ‘MERRY, David Byron’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, Nov 2014 accessed 31 March 2015