George Humphrey Middleton

Sir George Humphrey Middleton CMG (* January 21, 1910, † 12 February 1998) was a British diplomat.

Life

George Humphrey Middleton studied from 1920 to 1928 at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1932 he studied at the University of Freiburg in the German Reich and the University of Barcelona. George Humphrey Middleton joined the Foreign Service in 1933. In 1934 he married Elizabeth Rosalie Okeden Pockley. He did his internship as vice consul in Buenos Aires.

In 1935, he served as Secretary of third class Affaires in Asunción, Paraguay. From 1944 to 1945 he was Secretary of the Embassy in Washington, DC. From 28 January to 31 October 1952, he was charge d'affaires in Tehran, as in the Abadan crisis, the exploitation of the Persian oil was renegotiated.

From 1953 to 1956 he was Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi. From 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador in Beirut. In 1958 he was made a Knight. From 1961 to 1964 he was ambassador in Buenos Aires. From 1964 to 1965 he was ambassador to Cairo in Egypt, which was designated under Gamal Abdel Nasser as the United Arab Republic.