Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (30 October 1926 – 21 February 2020) was a British diplomat and author.
[1] He was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University.
[3] He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984.
[2] From 1984 to 1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan.
[2] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.