The Baron Renwick of Clifton, KCMG 1937-2024

 The Baron Renwick of Clifton, KCMG, who died 4 November, 2024, aged 86, was a diplomat, sometime ambassador to Washington and to South Africa.

He served in Dakar, Senegal, 1963–64; Foreign Office, 1964–66; New Delhi, 1966–70; Private Secretary to Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1970–72; First Secretary, Paris, 1972–76; Counsellor, Cabinet Office, 1976–78; Head of Rhodesia Department, FCO, 1978–80; Political Adviser to Governor of Rhodesia, 1980; Head of Chancery, Washington, 1981–84; Assistant Under-Secretary of State for European affairs, FCO, 1984–87. Helped to negotiate the 1984 UK rebate, a two-thirds reduction in the British financial contribution to the European Communities; Ambassador to: South Africa, 1987–91; involved in the release of Nelson Mandela; United States, 1991–95.

Robin William Renwick was born 13 December, 1937, son of Richard Renwick, of Edinburgh, and his wife the former Clarice Henderson; and married in 1965, Annie Colette Giudicelli, by whom he had issue.

He was a former diplomat and a former member of the House of Lords. He was originally appointed by Prime Minister Blair as a Labour Peer in 1997 but moved to the crossbenches in 2007. He retired from the House in 2018.

Renwick was appointed CMG in the 1980 New Year Honours and was promoted to KCMG in the 1989 New Year Honours. On his elevation to the Lords he took the title Baron Renwick of Clifton, of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. 

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