Denis Laskey
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Sir Denis Seward Laskey KCMG CVO (18 January 1916 – 16 October 1987) was a British ambassador to Romania and Austria.
Career
Denis Seward Laskey was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He joined the Foreign Office in 1939, served briefly in the British Army 1940–41, then returned to the Foreign Office until the end of the war, when he was posted to Berlin and later to the UK delegation to the United Nations in New York. He was Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (Selwyn Lloyd) 1956–59, Minister (second to the Ambassador) at Rome 1960–64, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Cabinet Office 1964–67, Minister at Bonn 1967–68, Ambassador to Romania 1969–71 and Ambassador to Austria 1972–75.
Laskey was appointed CMG in the 1957 New Year Honours , CVO in the 1958 Birthday Honours and knighted KCMG in the 1974 New Year Honours.
- , Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
- (obituary), The Times, London, 19 October 1987, page 18
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|---|---|---|
| Preceded byPatrick Hancock | Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1956–1959 | Succeeded byIan Samuel |
| Preceded bySir John Chadwick | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bucharest 1969–1971 | Succeeded byDerick Ashe |
| Preceded bySir Peter Wilkinson | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Vienna 1972–1975 | Succeeded byHugh Morgan |