Richard Dalton (diplomat)

Sir Richard John Dalton KCMG ( born October 10, 1948) is a former British diplomat.

Life

Richard Dalton joined the Foreign Service in 1970. He studied Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies in Lebanon. In 1973 he was Secretary of the Embassy in Amman. From 1975 to 1979 he was employed at the UN headquarters. He intended to make up for the Conservative Party as a candidate in the 1983 general election in the constituency of Richmond ( Yorks ).

As his sister, Sara Keays was at Cecil Parkinson no support for her candidacy to the House and this was also not married, Dalton pursued his candidacy no further, and in 2003 Head of the Consular Section in Muscat. From November 1993 to 1997 Dalton was Consul General in Jerusalem. 1998 Dalton headed the personnel department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1999 to 2003 he was the first ambassador after 17 years in Tripoli. From 2003 to 2006 he was ambassador in Tehran.

Dalton was taken on April 21, 2005 as a Knight Commander in the Order of St Michael and St George and retired in 2006. In his retirement, he was employed by a consulting firm and wrote for newspapers.

Richard John Dalton married on 1 January 1972 Mary Elizabeth Keays. They have two daughters and two sons.