Bryan Cartledge
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Sir Bryan Cartledge is a former British diplomat and academic.
After studying at the University of Cambridge, he took research posts at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.
He was inspired to become a diplomat after being invited to assist the former British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden with his memoirs.
In the British Diplomatic Service, Cartledge served in Sweden, the Soviet Union and Iran before being appointed, in 1977, to be Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the British Prime Minister; he served both James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher in that capacity before taking up his first ambassadorial appointment as British Ambassador to Hungary, in 1980.
He then headed the Defence and Overseas Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, as Deputy Secretary of the British Cabinet, before returning to Moscow as Ambassador, where he had regular dealings with Mikhail Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze.
Cartledge left the Diplomatic Service in 1988 on his election to be Principal of Linacre College, Oxford.
In Oxford, he has edited six books on environmental issues. He holds diplomas in the Hungarian language from the Universities of Westminster and Debrecen (Hungary).
His history of Hungary, The Will to Survive, fulfils an aspiration which grew out of his deep interest in that country, where he lived for three years in the early 1980s.
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom
- University of Oxford
- The Will to Survive - book summary on literary agency site
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