Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth (3 February 1909 – 29 June 1984) was a British diplomat.

He was British High Commissioner to India, 1960 to 1965, then Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Head of HM Diplomatic Service, retiring in 1969, after which was created a life peer and went into business. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1969 until his death.

Early life Gore-Booth was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.

After retirement from the civil service Gore-Booth was a director of Grindlays Bank and the United Kingdom Provident Institution, 1969–1979. He also served as Registrar of the Order of St Michael and St George, from 1966 to 1979, as president of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 1967–1979; chairman, Save the Children Fund, 1970–1976; chairman, Windsor Music Festival, 1971–1973; member, Disasters Emergency Committee, 1974–77; chairman, board of governors, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975–1980.

Honours and arms

Companion (1949), Knight Commander (1957), Knight Grand Cross (1965)

Knight Commander (1961) Life Peer as Baron Gore-Booth, of Maltby in the West Riding of the County of York (cr. 2 July 1969).

Works With Great Truth and Respect (autobiog.) 1974 Satow's Guide to Diplomatic Practice, 5th edn, 1978.