Reader Bullard

Sir Reader Bullard KBE, KCMG ( born December 5, 1885 in London Borough of Waltham Forest, † May 24 1976 in Wantage ) was a British diplomat.

Life

Reader Bullard was the son of Mary Bullard and Charles Bullard, a worker on the London docks. He attended a school in Woodford Green in North East London. He studied for two years at Queens' College (Cambridge) in 1906 and the Foreign Service, where he was employed in the Levant. He was employed at Constantinople Opel and Baghdad. In 1914, he was a managing consul in Basra.

In 1920 he was adviser to the military governor of Baghdad in Iraq. In 1921 he was employed in the Middle East Department of the Colonial Office. From 1923 to 1925 he was consul in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. From 1925 to 1928 he was consul in Athens, Greece. In 1928 he was Consul in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1930 he was consul general in Moscow, Soviet Union. From 1931 to 1934 he was consul in Leningrad, Soviet Union. In 1934 he was Consul General in Rabat, French Morocco. From 1936 to 1939 he was ambassador in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. From 1939 to 1943 he was ambassador in Baghdad, Iraq. From 1943 to 1946 he was ambassador in Tehran, Iran during the Tehran Conference.

1951 Bullard became director of the Institute of Colonial Studies in Oxford. In 1953 he became a member of the leadership of the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London.

1916 Bullard Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire was 1933 Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1936 Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ), 1944 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( KCB ). He was a Fellow honorary Queens College, Cambridge, of SOAS in London, and Lincoln College, Oxford.

1921 Reader Bullard married Miriam Catherine Smith, daughter of the historian Arthur Lionel Smith. They had one daughter and four sons and one daughter, including the diplomat Sir Giles Bullard (1926-1992) and Sir Julian Bullard ( 1928-2006 ).

Bullard was retired in 1946. He spent his Lebensaben in Woodstock Road, Oxford, North Oxford, England. His written heritage is archived at St Antony 's College, Oxford.

Publications

  • Britain and the Middle East. Hutchinson 's University Library, London / New York City in 1951.
  • The Camels Must Go. Autobiography. Faber and Faber, London 1961.
  • EC Hodgkin (ed.): Letters from Tehran: A British Ambassador in World War II Persia. L.B. Tauris, London 1991.
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