Sir Raymond William Whitney OBE (28 November 1930 – 15 August 2012[1]) was a British Conservative politician and diplomat.
[1] He resigned in 1964 in order to join the Diplomatic Service and served from 1966 to 1968 as first secretary at the Office of British Chargé d'Affaires in Peking during the Cultural Revolution.
Following the 1983 general election he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, moving to occupy the same position at the Department of Health and Social Security from October 1984 to September 1986.
[1] The Independent characterized Whitney as someone who "combined strongly right-wing views with staunch support of British membership of the European Community.
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