Sir Timothy Daunt, KCMG 1935-2023

 Sir Timothy Daunt, KCMG, who died 5 August, 2023, aged 87, was a diplomat and sometime Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Daunt was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1955 and posted to the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. After completing national service, he joined the diplomatic service and, after a series of postings, became Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels in 1982 and then British Ambassador to Turkey from 1986 to his retirement in 1992. In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. He later became chairman of the Ottoman Fund, a business established to provide mortgages for properties in Turkey.

Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt was born 11 October, 1935, and was head of that Irish landed gentry family, son of Leslie Henry Graeme Daunt (1904-1975), and his wife the former Margery Mary Kenny Jones (1900-1981); and married 26 July, 1962, Patricia Susan Knight (born 4 October, 1938), daughter of Major Claude Thorburn Knight (1910-1993), and his wife the former Hon Priscilla Dodson (1914-1995), daughter of the 2nd Baron Monk Bretton, CB (1869-1933).

He leaves a son, James (born 18 Oct, 1963), and two daughters, Eleanor (born 25 Apr, 1965), and Alice (born 23 Nov, 1969).

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