John Gordon Doubleday (27 November 1920–27 April 1982) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Liberia.

Biography

Doubleday was educated at Bedford School and at St John's College, Cambridge. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and then service in the Colonial Administrative Service in Northern Rhodesia between 1949 and 1965, he entered the British Diplomatic Service in 1965. He was Deputy High Commissioner to the Bahamas between 1973 and 1976 and to Sri Lanka between 1976 and 1978, before serving as Ambassador to Liberia between 1978 and 1980. He was appointed OBE in the 1975 Birthday Honours.

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1920 births

1982 deaths

People educated at Bedford School

Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II

Colonial Administrative Service officers

Members of HM Diplomatic Service

Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Liberia

British expatriates in Zambia

British expatriates in Sri Lanka

British expatriates in the Bahamas

20th-century British diplomats

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