Lord Thomas Brimelow, Head of the Diplomatic Services

This collection comprises material collected by Lord Thomas Brimelow (1915-1995) for an account of the Yalta Repatriation Agreements that he was planning to write during his retirement.

Thomas Brimelow's career can be summarized in brief as follows: he was educated at New Mills Grammar School, and went on to Oriel College Oxford, eventually becoming Laming Travelling Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford in 1937. During his early career he served in the diplomatic service in Danzig, Riga, New York and Moscow. In 1948 Brimelow was appointed First Secretary (Commercial) and Consul in Havana. He subsequently served in the following posts: Counsellor (Commercial), Ankara, 1954; Head of Northern Department of the Foreign Office, 1956; Councillor Washington, 1960-63; Minister, British Embassy, Moscow, 1963-66; Ambassador to Poland, 1966-69; Deputy Under-Secretary of State, FCO, 1969-73; Permanent Under-Secretary, FCO, and Head of the Diplomatic Service, 1973-75. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1977 to 1978. Thomas Brimelow was awarded an OBE in 1959, and created Life Peer, Baron of Tyldesley, Lancashire in 1976. He was a member of the Athenaeum club.