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Glenn Babb
Glenn Robin Ware Babb (born 4 June 1943) is a former politician and diplomat for the former apartheid government in South Africa. More recently he has been a businessman and entrepreneur. From 1985 to 1987 he had a high-profile posting in Canada where he was his government's ambassador to Ottawa and made frequent public statements against the anti-apartheid movement and in defence of his government and in opposition to the movement for economic sanctions on and disinvestment from South Africa that the Canadian government was leading internationally. Babb was educated at Stellenbosch University and at Oxford having been awarded the Joerg Gosteli bursary. While at Oxford, he rowed with the Lincoln College VIII and was part of the first crew to attempt to beat the Guards' record of fifteen and half hours for rowing from Oxford to London.〔 "The Daily Mail" 9 June 1966〕 Thereafter he joined South Africa's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.〔 He also earned a law degree from the University of South Africa with a distinction in Constitutional Law.〔 ==Family== Glenn Babb was born in Johannesburg to Eric Ware Babb and Ora Constance Loverock and was educated at St John's College, Johannesburg, a private school for boys. His great-grandfather, Charles Doering, came from a prominent Ontario family (United Empire Loyalists) which owned the Doering Stock and Dairy Farm in Chesterville, Ontario. Charles Doering became the first dentist in Johannesburg and sent his son, Lawrence Doering, to St John's College as a founder pupil in the Union Grounds. Five generations of his family have attended the same school. Glenn Babb married Tracey Dibb on 31 May 2003. Babb has two sons and two daughters.〔
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