David Reddaway

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Sir
David Reddaway
KCMG MBE
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Reddaway in 2016
British Ambassador to Turkey
In office
2009–2014
Education Oundle School
Alma mater University of Cambridge

Sir David Norman Reddaway KCMG MBE (born 26 April 1953) is a retired British diplomat who was High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Ireland and Turkey. [1]

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Career

Reddaway was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where his father, Norman Reddaway, also a British diplomat, was posted at the time. He attended King's College School, Cambridge [2] and Oundle School, [3] then studied History at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where his grandfather, the historian William Fiddian Reddaway, had served as Censor. [4] [lower-alpha 1] He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975. His career has included assignments to Iran (during the Iranian revolution), India, Spain, Argentina and Afghanistan.

In 2002, his appointment as British ambassador to Iran was rejected by the Iranian government, with some Iranian newspapers incorrectly accusing him of being "a Jew and a member of MI6". [5] [6] He speaks fluent Persian.

He served as High Commissioner to Canada between 2003 and 2006. In 2006 he was appointed the British Ambassador to Ireland [7] and presented his diplomatic credentials to the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese on 12 September 2006, succeeding Stewart Eldon as the ambassador. [8]

He was appointed to Turkey in 2009, [9] and left Ankara in January 2014. [10]

Following his retirement from the FCO, he was Chief Executive and Clerk of the Goldsmiths' Company from 2016-2023.

Reddaway was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1980, [11] CMG in 1993, [12] and knighted KCMG in the 2013 Birthday Honours "for services to British diplomacy and furthering UK interests in Turkey". [13]

Reddaway had the honour of celebrating his 64th birthday at a Chris de Burgh concert. De Burgh announced Sir David's birthday to a packed audience at the London Palladium on April 26, 2017, and gave a brief account of his role as a diplomat. He then sang the Beatles song 'When I'm 64.'

Personal

David Reddaway married Roshan Firouz in the late summer of 1981, [14] thereby gaining Louise Firouz as his mother in law. The marriage was followed by the births of the couple's two sons and one daughter. [6]
David remarried, to Gabrielle Claire O’Driscoll, in March, 2020.

Career

Arms

Coat of arms of David Reddaway
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Notes
Granted 1 December 2021 (183/331) [15]
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Gules Issuing from a Circlet of Leopard’s Faces four manifest Or a demi Persian Ibex proper holding between the legs a Tulip Flower Gules slipped Vert. Mantled Gules doubled Or.
Escutcheon
Per pall Or Azure and Gules in fess two Castles Or enflamed proper and in base a like Castle in chief a Sprig of three Maple Leaves slips conjoined on one stem Gules and veined Or.
Motto
The Best From Old And New

Notes

  1. ↑ Between 1869 and 1966 Fitzwilliam Hall/House/College did not appoint a "Master". Many of the supervisory and disciplinary responsibilities conferred by other Oxbridge colleges on a "Master" were instead allocated to an individual identified, at Fitzwilliam, as the "Censor".

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References

  1. ↑ The Goldsmiths’ Company appoints Sir David Reddaway as new clerk
  2. ↑ Henderson, RJ (1981). A History of King's College Choir School Cambridge. ISBN   978-0950752808.
  3. ↑ The British Embassy in Turkey Career history [ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ David Reddaway honoured Archived 7 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine — Fitzwilliam College news article, 23 July 2013
  5. ↑ Rejection threatens UK-Iran detente — BBC News article, 8 February 2002
  6. 1 2 Patsy McGarry (1 July 2006). "New British ambassador leaves post in Ottawa". Irish Times, Dublin . Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Embassy Website Archived 10 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ New British ambassador presents credentials Archived 14 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine — British embassy press release, 12 September 2006
  9. ↑ Anadolu Ajansi - Britain appoints new Ambassador to Ankara Archived 23 July 2012 at archive.today
  10. ↑ Bidding Farewell: David Reddaway, ankarascene.com
  11. ↑ "No. 48212". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1980. p. 19.
  12. ↑ "No. 53332". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1993. p. 3.
  13. ↑ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 3.
  14. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  15. ↑ "January 2022 Newsletter (no 67)". College of Arms. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by British High Commissioner to Canada
2003–2006		Succeeded by
Preceded by British Ambassador to Ireland
2006–2009		Succeeded by
Preceded by British Ambassador to Turkey
2009–2014		Succeeded by
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