Sir John Alexander Noble Graham, 4th Baronet, GCMG (15 July 1926 – 11 December 2019) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Iraq, Iran and NATO.
He served in the Grenadier Guards from 1944 to 1947,[1] receiving a commission as a second lieutenant on 27 July 1945, barely over a month before the end of the Second World War.
On leaving Cambridge he joined the Diplomatic Service and studied at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies before being posted to Bahrain in 1951, Kuwait in 1952 and Amman in 1953.
Graham was Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1969–72, serving Michael Stewart and Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
He was then posted as Counsellor (later Minister) and Head of Chancery at Washington 1972–74; Ambassador to Iraq 1974–77;[2] deputy Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 1977–79; Ambassador to Iran 1979–80;[3] deputy Under-Secretary again 1980–82; and finally Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels 1982–86.