Jeremy Cresswell | |
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British High Commissioner to Jamaica | |
In office 2005–2009 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Peter Mathers |
Succeeded by | Howard Drake |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 October 1949 |
Jeremy Michael Cresswell CVO (born 1 October 1949) [1] is a British former diplomat [2] who was High Commissioner to Jamaica and the Bahamas from 2005 to 2009. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in December 2009. [3]
Cresswell was born in Windsor. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School;Exeter College,Oxford;and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Cresswell entered the FCO in 1972. He served in Brussels and Kuala Lumpur before becoming Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the FCO in 1980. He was later Deputy Head at the News Department;Assistant Head at the South America Department;Counsellor (Political) for the UK Delegation to NATO;Deputy Head of Mission in Prague;on the Senior Directing Staff at the RCDS;and Head of the European Union Department at the FCO. From 2001 to 2005 he was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin.
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The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to appoint the undermentioned to be Officers of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service 22nd December 1975 Jeremy Michael Cresswell, Esquire