Francis Shepherd (diplomat)

Sir Francis Michie Shepherd, KBE, CMG (6 January 1893 – 15 May 1962) was a British diplomat.

During the First World War, he served in the Royal Field Artillery in France, Mesopotamia.

[1] He was appointed to the Consular Service in 1920, and served at San Francisco, Buenos Ayres, Lima, Antwerp and Hamburg.

He was chargé d’affaires at Port-au-Prince in 1932. in charge of the British Legation at San Salvador in 1934, Minister Resident and Consul to Haiti from 1935 to 1937, Acting Consul-General at Barcelona in March–May 1938, Consul at Dresden in 1938–39; Acting Consul-General at Danzig in July–August 1939.

Returning to the United Kingdom on the outbreak of the Second World War, he was employed in the Foreign Office from October 1939 to February 1940, before being appointed Counsellor of Legation and Consul-General at Reykjavik in 1940–42, and at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, in 1942.