Marjoribanks, James Alexander Milne, 1911-2002.

Sir James Alexander Milne Marjoribanks, KCMG, was born May 29, 1911, the son of the Rev. Thomas Marjoribanks of that Ilk and Mary Ord. He was educated at Merchiston, the Edinburgh Academy, and Edinburgh University where he received his master's degree with first class honors. In 1936 he married Sonya Patricia Stanley Adler. Sir James entered the British Foreign Service in 1934. His long career included postings to China, France, the U.S., Australia, and Germany. From 1962 to 1965 he was assistant under-secretary of state in the Foreign Office and from 1965 to 1971, ambassador and head of the U.K. delegation to the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community, and the European Coal and Steel Community. Sir James Marjoribanks died in 2002.

Graham Henry Greene was born on Oct. 2, 1904 in Berkhamsted, England to Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene. His father was headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which Greene attended from 1915 until 1921. He completed his formal education at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a second in modern history in 1925. The next year Greene converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, and, in 1927, married Vivien Dayrell Browning, a fellow Catholic. They had two children, Lucy Caroline and Francis. Greene, a prolific writer, is best known as a novelist, though he also wrote plays, short stories, and non-fiction. He was on the staff of The times, London from 1926 to 1930 and was literary editor of The spectator during 1940 and 1941. He contributed film criticism to the short-lived periodical Night and day (July 1-Dec. 23, 1937), and, in 1954, was the Indochina correspondent for The new republic. During World War II he worked for the British Foreign Office and was stationed in Africa. In 1977 he was a member of the Panamanian delegation to Washington for the signing of the Panama Canal Treaties. Greene died on April 3, 1991 in Vevey, Switzerland.

From the description of The Greene/Marjoribanks collection, 1985-1986. (Georgetown University). WorldCat record id: 105637137

Epithet: civil servant

Title: Knight

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