Mervyn Brown

Sir Mervyn Brown, after Oxford where he gained a tennis blue and formed lifelong friendships with Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, mainly through jazz, became a career diplomat. He served in Buenos Aires, Singapore and Vientiane, as Ambassador to Madagascar and Benin and as High Commissioner to mehr anzeigen Tanzania and Nigeria, with spells at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United Nations weniger anzeigen