Nigel Broomfield
Sir Nigel Broomfield | |
|---|---|
| British Ambassador to Germany | |
| In office 1993–1997 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| President | Richard von Weizsäcker Roman Herzog |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Chancellor | Helmut Kohl |
| Preceded by | Sir Christopher Mallaby |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Meyer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 March 1937 Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Died | 29 October 2018 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | British |
Sir Nigel Hugh Robert Allen Broomfield KCMG (19 March 1937 – 29 October 2018) was a British diplomat.
Career
[edit]Broomfield was born in Nowshera[1] and educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He joined the British Army and was commissioned in the 17th/21st Lancers in 1959,[3] retiring with the rank of Major in 1968.
He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1969 and served in the British embassies in Bonn and Moscow, and with the British Military Government in Berlin, as well as senior posts at the FCO. He was Deputy High Commissioner, New Delhi, 1985–88; Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic 1988–90; Deputy Under Secretary of State (Defence) at the FCO 1990–92; and Ambassador to Germany 1993–97.[4]
Broomfield was appointed CMG in 1986 and knighted KCMG in 1993.[5]
After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, Sir Nigel was director of the Ditchley Foundation 1999–2004. He took part in the Atlantic Storm exercise in 2005.[6] He was a non-executive director of TI Group 1998–2000 and of Smiths Group 2000–2007.[7] He was also chairman of Leonard Cheshire Disability 2004-2009.[8] He was honorary President of the German-British Chamber of Commerce.[9] He was the founding non-executive chairman of Cambridge Quantum Computing.[2]
He died of cancer on 29 October 2018 at the age of 81.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sir Nigel Hugh Robert Broomfield KCMG : Traueranzeige : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". lebenswege.faz.net. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Sir Nigel Broomfield Non-Executive Chairman". Cambridge Quantum Computing. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017.
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 16 June 1959
- ^ "British Diplomats Directory: Part 1 of 4". Issuu. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1992
- ^ Atlantic Storm participants - Nigel Broomfield
- ^ Board of Directors, Smiths Group, 2006
- ^ New Chairman for the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability, 13 July 2009
- ^ Honorary Officers and Council, German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce
- ^ Broomfield
External links
[edit]- BROOMFIELD, Sir Nigel (Hugh Robert Allen), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 9 April 2012
- Sir Nigel Broomfield, KCMG on Debrett's People of Today
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1937 births
- 2018 deaths
- Military personnel of British India
- 20th-century British Army personnel
- People from Nowshera District
- People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 17th/21st Lancers officers
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to East Germany
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Germany
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George