About Denis Laskey
Lived 1916 – 1987 (aged 71). Denis Laskey was a British diplomat.
Sir Denis Seward Laskey (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.
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Denis Laskey was born on 18 January 1916.
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Denis Laskey died on 16 October 1987.
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Denis Laskey was a diplomat.
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Denis Laskey was British.
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