Adrian John Sindall CMG (born 5 October 1937)[1] is a diplomat and formerly the British High Commissioner to Brunei and Syria.
At the time, his father was employed by the Pullman firm, which catered to railroads; he eventually rose to the rank of junior civil servant.
By the time he got there in 1970, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had made life in Beirut bearable through some type of arrangement that the Lebanese government, mostly through Walid Jumblatt, had managed to achieve.
Returning to London, he found himself taking on that role, specifically addressing the recent issues surrounding the Falkland Islands.
As New South Wales was a state with its own bicameral legislature and a government consisting of ministers and a premier, he was in a sense nearly officially accredited as an ambassador.
[2] When Sindall served as High Commissioner in Brunei from 1991 to 1994,[7] there was no obvious political instability and little concern for the Sultan's future.
He noted that a person's performance as a British High Commissioner in Brunei depended in part on how well or poorly they got along with the Sultan.
[8] He had the good fortune to be working in Damascus as the first British Ambassador in decades during a period when bilateral relations between the two countries were flourishing.