Stephen Barrett (diplomat)

Sir Stephen Jeremy Barrett, CMG (1988) ( born December 4, 1931) is a former British diplomat.

Life

Stephen Jeremy Barrett studied at Westminster School, London, and on the Christian Church. He joined the Foreign Service in 1955 and married in 1958 Mary Alison Irvine, together they have three sons.

From May 4 1957 to 1959 he was Secretary in Nicosia second class and then to 1962, political adviser to the British military headquarters in Berlin. He then worked until 1965 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1965 to 1968 he headed the consular embassy in Helsinki, to be followed again employed until 1972 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Head of the consular embassy in Prague he was two years from 1972 to 1974 and from 1978 to 1981, he was Counsellor in Ankara.

The British government had the building complex of the British Embassy in Tehran in 1980 handed over to the Kingdom of Sweden as a protecting power. This Swedish Embassy subsequently housed the British Interests Section. Stephen Jeremy Barrett led the 1981 British Interests Section, when he was admitted on 31 December 1981 as a Companion in the Order of St Michael and St George. From August 14 1985 to 1988 he was then ambassador to Prague and then to 1991, ambassador in Warsaw.