Allinson, Walter Leonard, Sir, 1926-, Knight, civil servant and diplomat

1947-1948 Assistant Principal, Ministry of Fuel and Power; 1948-1958 Ministry of Education; 1958 transferred to Commonwealth Relations Office; 1960-1962 First Secretary in Lahore and Karachi; 1963-1966 First Secretary in Madras and New Delhi; 1968-1970 Deputy Head, later Head, of Permanent Under-Secretary's Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; 1970-1973 Counsellor and Head of Chancery, subsequently Deputy High Commissioner, Nairobi; 1975-1977 Deputy High Commissioner and Minister, New Delhi; 1978-1980 High Commissioner, Lusaka; 1980-1982 Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Africa); 1982-1986 High Commissioner in Kenya and Ambassador to UN Environment Programme.

Epithet: civil servant and diplomat

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