Geoffrey Harrison

Sir Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison ( born July 18, 1908 in Hants, England; † 1990) was a British diplomat.

Life

Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison was the son of Maud Winifred Godman and Commdr. Thomas Edmund Harrison. Geoffrey Harrison was educated at Winchester and King 's College, Cambridge. He joined on 21 October 1932 in the foreign service and was employed in Berlin and Tokyo. Geoffrey Harrison married in 1936 Amy Catherine Clive, they had a daughter and three sons.

From 1941 to 1945 he was Botschaftsekrtetär at the Foreign Office in the Department of German Empire. From 1945 to 1947 he was Counsellor in Brussels. In the 1950s, he was Assistant Deputy Minister in the FCO.

From 1st October 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From November 3 1958 to 1963 he was ambassador in Tehran, Iran. From 1963 to 1965 he was Deputy Vice Minister in the FCO From August 1965 to 1968 he was ambassador in Moscow, Soviet Union.