Frank Roberts (diplomat)
Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts GCMG, GCVO ( born October 27, 1907 in Buenos Aires, † January 7, 1998 in Kensington, London ) was a British diplomat.
Life
Frank Kenyon Roberts was the son of Gertrude Kenyon, Blackburn and Henry George Roberts, Preston. He studied at Bedales School, Rugby and at Trinity College ( Cambridge ) in 1930 and joined the Foreign Service. From 1932 to 1935 he was employed in Paris and from 1935 to 1937 in Cairo. In Cairo, he married Celeste Leila Beatrix Shoucair († 1990). In 1937 he was employed at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
From September 1939 to 1940 he was Joint Secretary to the Anglo - French Supreme War Council and acted as an interpreter at the third meeting of the Supreme War Council, which met at 10 Downing Street on November 17, 1939.
From 18 July to 27 October 1941, he was confidant of Edvard Beneš. From 1940 to 1941 he was a member of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, which he headed from 1942 to 1945.
From January 1945 to 1947 he was ambassador in Moscow and advised Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference.
By George F. Kennan, he analyzed Soviet foreign policy and developed the containment policy.
From 1947 he was Private Secretary to Ernest Bevin and was involved in negotiations during the Berlin Blockade.
From 1949 to 1951 he was deputy of Archibald Nye as High Commissioner in New Delhi.
From 1951 to 1954 he was Deputy Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1954 to 1957 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
From 1957 to 1960 he was the representative of the British government in the North Atlantic Council. From 1960 to 1962 he was ambassador in Moscow. From 1963 to 1968 he was ambassador in Bonn.
In 1946 he was Companion, 1956 Knight Commander and 1963 winner of the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 1965 he was admitted to the Royal Victorian Order. He sat on the board of Mercedes -Benz and Unilever, worked for his father in Argentina.