Wright, Sir Paul Hervé Giraud, son of Richard Hervé Giraud Wright, sec. White's Club, and Ellen Margaret, d. of Lewis William Mercier; b. 12 May 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (G); left July 1932; John Lewis Partnership 1933-9; KRRC 1939-45 (Maj.), HQ 21 Army Group 1944-5, despatches (NW Europe) Apr. 1946; contested (L) NE Bethnal Green 1945; asst dir. of public relations NCB 1946-8; dir. of public relations Festival of Britain 1948-51; Press Officer UK delegation to United Nations, New York, 1951; OBE 1952; entered HM Foreign Service 1953; 1st Sec. The Hague 1956; Counsellor 1957, Head of FO Information Policy Dept; CMG 1960; Counsellor and Chargé d' Affaires Cairo 1960-1; Counsellor UK delegauon to NATO, Paris, 1961-4; Dir.-Gen. British Information Services New York 1964-8, Minister (Information) Washington DC 1965-8; HM Ambassador to the Congo (now Zaire) 1968-71; HM Ambassador to Lebanon 1971-5; KCMG June 1975; special representative of the Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs 1975-8; chairman Irvin (GB) Ltd 1979-88; FRSA; a Busby Trustee 1977-; Pres. Elizabethan Club 1988-; author of A Brittle Glory (autobiog.) 1986; m. 23 May 1942 Beatrice Frederika Rathbone MP, widow of Flt Lieut. John Rankin Rathbone RAVFR MP, and d. of Frank Roland Clough of Boston, Mass., USA; d. 10 June 2005.