Eleanor Emery

Eleanor Emery, CMG (23 December 1918 – 22 June 2007)[1] was High Commissioner to Botswana from 1973[2] to 1977: the first British woman to reach that rank.

[3] She was born in Glasgow[4] but educated at Western Canada High School; and the University of Glasgow.

After that she served in Bechuanaland[7] Ottawa,[8] New Delhi and Pretoria.

Appointed an Officer of HM Diplomatic Service in 1966,[9] she was Head of the South Asia Department at the CRO then the Pacific Dependent Territories Department before her Botswana appointment.

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