Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil (25 March 1913 – 28 February 1994) was a British diplomat and writer.

Life, education, and career Robert Cecil was born in Southbourne, a suburb of Bournemouth, Hampshire (now in Dorset) in southern England on 25 March 1913. During his career in the diplomatic service, from 1945 to 1967, Cecil served in the Foreign Office; as First Secretary in Washington, D.C.; as a Counsellor and Consul General in Europe, as Director-General of British Information Services, and latterly as Head of the Cultural Relations Department at the Foreign Office. at the University of Reading. From 1968 to 1994 he was chairman of the London-based Institute for Cultural Research (ICR), founded by the writer, thinker and teacher in the Sufi mystical tradition, Idries Shah Cecil wrote three monographs for the institute, and also published several books, Cultural Imperialism Cults in 19th Century Britain

Books Life in Edwardian England (Victorian, 1969) The Myth Of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972) Hitler's Decision to Invade Russia (HarperCollins, 1975) The King's Son: Readings in the Traditional Psychologies and Contemporary Thought of Man (co-compiled with Richard Rieu and David Wade, Octagon Press, 1980) A Divided Life: a biography of Donald Maclean (The Bodley Head Ltd, 1988) The Masks of Death: Changing Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century (The Book Guild, 1991) .