Sir Thomas Bromley KCMG (14 December 1911 – 18 June 1987) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Somalia, Syria, Algeria, and Ethiopia.
Son of Thomas Edward Bromley of the Indian Civil Service,[1] Thomas Eardley Bromley was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He then returned to London and after the war served at Washington, D.C., and Baghdad.
[6] In 1968, while addressing a gathering of 2,000 university students in Addis Ababa, he was stoned by demonstrators against the Smith regime in Rhodesia.
... Inevitably, with his wife committed to custody, he withdrew from society but was able to go on to occupy more ambassadorial posts than are given to most diplomats.