John William Richmond Shakespeare, CMG,LVO (born 11 June 1930) is a British retired
diplomat.
Shakespeare was born in
Simla, India, the only son of Major W. G. Shakespeare, who was in charge of the British Military Hospital there. From 1935 to 1937 the family lived in Peking, where Major Shakespeare was medical officer to the Legation Garrison. In 1937 they moved to Hong Kong, where his father was in charge of the British Military Hospital. He attended the
Peak School, of which he is the oldest surviving
alumnus.[citation needed]
In 1959 he was Private Secretary to Sir
Gladwyn Jebb, the
British ambassador in Paris. On 22 September 1960 he was appointed a member of the Foreign Service in Paris, and on August 1961 he was transferred to the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. In 1963, he was promoted to First Secretary.
From 1966 to 1969, he was Information Officer in Rio de Janeiro. He was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross.
From 1973 to 1976 he was Counsellor and
Consul General in Buenos Aires.[1]
From 1979 to 1983, he was Deputy Head of Mission in Lisbon, and Chargé d'affaires during the Falklands War of 1982. He was Chairman of the Anglo-Portuguese Society from 1981 to 1984.
From 1983 to 1987 he was ambassador in
Lima.[2] He was Vice-President of the Anglo-Peruvian Society from 1991.
From 1987 to 1990 he was ambassador in
Rabat. He was awarded the Alouite Order by King Hassan II.
From 1991, he was Chairman of the Morgan Grenfell (later Deutsche Bank) Latin American Trust.
From 1991, he was Latin American consultant for Clyde & Co.
^John William Richmond Shakespeare, Esquire, M.V.O., to be Her Majesty's Consul-General for the Argentine Republic, to reside at Buenos Aires (12 July 1973).
H.M. Stationery Office, The London Gazette, part 11, 1973,
p. 13192
^The Diplomatic Service List. United Kingdom: H.M. Stationery Office, 1998. Page 114.