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Sir David Elliott Spiby Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE (born 13 July 1941) is a British retired diplomat. After joining the Foreign Office in 1964 he served in a number of diplomatic posts in Kuwait, Ireland, Egypt and at the United Nations in New York. He was appointed the British ambassador to Ireland from 1991 to 1995, and ambassador to Egypt from 1995 to 1999. Following his retirement he has served on the boards of a number of organisations. ==Education and career== Born on 13 July 1941, he was educated at Lincoln School and Wadham College, Oxford and joined the Foreign Office in 1964.〔 He attended the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1968 he became a Third then later a Second Secretary at the Foreign Office before being appointed to the diplomatic service in 1968.〔 His first overseas posting was Kuwait from 1968 followed by Dublin in 1970. He was promoted to First Secretary and returned to work at the Foreign Office from September 1973.〔 In July 1977 he was appointed Head of Chancery in Cairo. He was promoted to counsellor and from March 1981 to 1983 he was seconded to the Political Affairs Division of the Northern Ireland Office. Following criticism of the British government by Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich after the death of hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara in May 1981, Blatherwick advised the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, on a possible response to the Cardinal. Documents related to the hunger strike, including Blatherwick's advice note, were released by the British Government in 2012 and published on the Conflict Archive on the Internet website.〔 During his time in Northern Ireland he met with the Ulster Unionist politician, David Trimble. Blatherwick described Trimble as initially suspicious of the motives of both the Northern Ireland Office and the Foreign Office, who he saw as pandering to the nationalists. However Trimble later came to the view that Blatherwick was not planning to sell out Ulster but was instead "looking for some formulation that would quieten things down." In March 1983 he became Head of the Energy Science and Space Department at the Foreign Office. He was appointed counsellor and Head of Chancery at the UK mission to the United Nations in New York and served there from June 1986 to 1989.〔 He returned to the Foreign Office again in 1989, this time as Superintending Under-Secretary and Principal Finance Officer with responsibility for planning and co-ordination of expenditure and oversight of delegated budgets. He served as ambassador to Ireland from 10 September 1991 to 29 March 1995, and ambassador to Egypt from May 1995 to 10 February 1999.〔 He retired from the diplomatic service in 1999.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Blatherwick (diplomat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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