Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO 1930-2022

 Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO, environmentalist and diplomat retired, died 25 January, 2022. He was 91.

Crispin Charles Cervantes Tickell was born 25 August, 1930, son of Jerrard Tickell and his wife the former Renee Haynes, and was a great-great grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, of that landed gentry family, the biologist and anthropologist.

Career: Coldstream Guards 1952-54; HM Diplomatic Servive, 1954; Foreign Office 1954-55; The Hague 1955-58; Mexico 1958-61; Foreign Office (Planning Staff) 1961-64; Paris 1964-70; Private secretary to successive ministers responsible for Britain's entry into the European Community 1970-72; Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1972-75; Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 1975-76; Chef de Cabinet to the Commissioner of the European Community, 1977-81; Visiting Fellow, All Souls College Oxford 1981; Ambassador to Mexico 1981-83; Deputy Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1983-84; Perm Secretary, ODA, 1984-87; British Perm Rep to the United Nations, 1987-90; Warden, Green College, Oxford, 1990-97, appointed Chancellor of University of Kent, 1996 &c.

He was appointed MVO [1958], KCVO [1983], and GCMG [1989].

Tickell married 1stly 1954 [div 1976] Chloe Gunn, daughter of Sir James Gunn, RA, the portrait painter, by whom he had two sons and a daughter; married 2ndly, 1977, Penelope, daughter of Dr Vernon Thorne.

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