David Gore-Booth

See also: David Gore (disambiguation)

Sir David Alwyn Gore-Booth KCMG KCVO (15 May 1943 – 31 October 2004) was a British diplomat, who served in the FCO from 1964 until 1998.

Gore-Booth arms

Sir David was appointed HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 1993, before his final posting as British High Commissioner in New Delhi 1996–1998.^[1] His father, Lord Gore-Booth GCMG was also High Commissioner to India 1960–1965.^[2]

Family and education

Of Anglo-Irish extraction, the Gore-Booth family was formerly seated at Artarman and Lissadell, and were created baronets in 1760.^[3]

Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, David Gore-Booth was a twin son of Lord Gore-Booth GCMG, and married firstly in 1964, Jillian Sarah, née Valpy (marriage dissolved 1970), by whom he had one son: Paul Wyatt Julian Gore-Booth (heir presumptive to the baronetcy); he married secondly in 1977, Mary Elisabeth Janet, daughter of Sir David Muirhead with a step son.

Honours

• – KCMG (1997), CMG 1990;
• – KCVO (1997).

See also

• Booth baronets
• Gore baronets