James Bottomley (diplomat)

Sir James Reginald Alfred Bottomley, KCMG (12 January 1920 – 5 June 2013)[1] was a British diplomat.

[3] In World War II he served in the Inns of Court Regiment, RAC, 1940–46 and was seriously wounded at Pont de Vère near Flers in Normandy in August 1944, requiring two years of surgery to repair his jaw.

He was British Ambassador to South Africa 1973–1976, and Permanent UK Representative to the UN and other international Organisations at Geneva 1976–78, at which point he retired from diplomatic service.

[6] He married on 23 August 1941, at Cheswardine, Shropshire, Barbara Vardon;[2] they had two daughters and three sons, one of whom died young.

After cremation at Cambridge (where the couple moved after his retirement), his ashes were buried in Cheswardine churchyard along with those of his wife and their predeceased son.