About Peter Curtis
Lived 1929 – 2013 (aged 83). Peter Curtis was a diplomat and politician.
Peter Campbell John Curtis (8 September 19295 May 2013) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.
Curtis was born on 8 September 1929. He grew up in Sydney, attending Riverview College and later the University of Sydney, before going on to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
In 1957, Curtis joined the Department of External Affairs.
Curtis' first ambassadorial posting was to Laos in 1969. In the role he led a property acquisition trip to Hanoi in advance of establishing a mission in Vietnam.
He was appointed Ambassador to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan in 1975. The posting was based in Beirut.
From 1976 to 1979, Curtis was Australian High Commissioner to India and Nepal.
In 1982, Curtis was appointed Australian Ambassador to France.
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Australian public servant and diplomat
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Peter Curtis died on 5 May 2013.
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