Sydney Giffard

Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (30 October 1926 – 21 February 2020) was a British diplomat and author.^[1] He was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University.^[2] His career in the foreign service began in 1961.^[2] He became the British Ambassador to Switzerland from 1980.^[3] He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984.^[2] From 1984 to 1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan.^[2] In 1983 he received the Order of St Michael and St George^[4] and in 2003, the Order of the Rising Sun.^[2] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.^[5]

Sir Sydney Giffard KCMG
British Ambassador to Japan
In office 1984–1986
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Succeeded by	Sir John Whitehead
British Ambassador to Switzerland
In office 1980–1982
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Sir Alan Rothnie
Succeeded by	John Ernest Powell-Jones
Personal details
Born	(1926-10-30)30 October 1926
Died	21 February 2020(2020-02-21) (aged 93)
Nationality	British
Education	Repton School
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford

Bibliography

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• Ai no Shogen (The Flowers are fallen) by Rinzō Shiina, 1961, translated from the Japanese by Giffard
• Japan among the powers 1880–1990, 1994
• Guns, kites and horses: three diaries from the Western front, 2003