Sydney Giffard

Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (born 30 October 1926) is a British diplomat and author.

Giffard was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University.

Giffard's career in the foreign service began in 1961.

He became the British Ambassador to Switzerland from 1980. He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984. In 1984-1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan.

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Sydney Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.

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