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Henry Hainworth
Henry Charles Hainworth (12 September 1914 – 28 January 2005) was the British Ambassador to Indonesia, 1968–70, and to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva in the early 1970s.
Education.
Henry Hainworth was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge.
Diplomatic career.
Hainworth joined the Consular Service in 1939 and in 1940 he was posted to the embassy in Tokyo. He was in Japan on the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
out his job, as all his others, with solid distinction.”
Hainworth was appointed Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1961 and retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1974, later serving for eight years as chairman of the Anglo-Indonesian Society.
Publications.
Hainworth’s 1981 publication, A Collector's Dictionary, is available to view at Google Books:
- A Collector's Dictionary, Henry Hainworth; Published by Routledge & Co; London, 1981
Sources.
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