After service at Budapest, Washington, D.C. and the OECD in Paris, she was head of the Marine and Transport Department at the FCO 1967–70 and had to deal with the international aspects of the Torrey Canyon oil spill in March 1967.
From 1988 to 1998 she was chairman of the Anglo-Norse Society in London which now annually awards the Dame Gillian Brown Postgraduate Scholarship in her memory.
[5] Gill Brown was happy in Oslo: in command of her subject ... and in a country where her achievements as a professional woman were much respected.
She reaped her reward when the Falklands crisis broke, and Norway became one of the first countries to ban Argentine imports (the argument that territorial disputes must not be settled by force went straight home in the only NATO country to share a land frontier with the Soviet Union).
[1] Brown was appointed CMG in 1971[6] and made a Dame (female equivalent of Knight) of the Royal Victorian Order in 1981.