{{Short description|British diplomat and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More footnotes needed|date=December 2007}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Sir Bryan Cartledge |honorific_suffix = [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] |image = |caption = |office = [[List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia|British Ambassador]] to the <br /> [[USSR]] |term_start = 1985 |term_end = 1988 |predecessor = [[Iain Sutherland (diplomat)|Iain Sutherland]] |successor = [[Rodric Braithwaite]] |prime_minister = [[Margaret Thatcher]] |office2 = [[List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Hungary|British Ambassador]] to <br /> [[Hungary]] |term_start2 = 1980 |term_end2 = 1983 |prime_minister2 = [[Margaret Thatcher]] |predecessor2 = [[Sir Richard Parsons]] |successor2 = [[Peter Unwin]] |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1931|06|10}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |alma_mater = |spouse = |children = |website = }}
'''Sir Bryan Cartledge''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (born 10 June 1931),<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-6-10.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130609232741/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-6-10.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 9 June 2013 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=9 June 2014|date=10 June 2013|quote=Sir Bryan Cartledge, Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, 1988–96, 82 }}</ref> is a former British [[diplomat]] and academic.
After studying at [[Hurstpierpoint College]] and [[St John's College, Cambridge]], he took research posts at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]] and the [[Hoover Institute]] at [[Stanford University]]. He was inspired to become a diplomat after being invited to assist the former British prime minister and foreign secretary Sir [[Anthony Eden]] with his memoirs.
In the British Diplomatic Service, Cartledge served in [[Sweden]], the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Iran]] before being appointed, in 1977, to be Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the British prime minister; he served both [[James Callaghan]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in that capacity before taking up his first ambassadorial appointment as British ambassador to [[Hungary]] in 1980. He then headed the Defence and Overseas Secretariat of the [[Cabinet Office]], as deputy secretary of the British Cabinet, before returning to Moscow as ambassador, where he had regular dealings with [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Eduard Shevardnadze]].
Cartledge left the Diplomatic Service in 1988 on his election to be Principal of [[Linacre College, Oxford]]. In Oxford, he has edited six books on environmental issues. He holds diplomas in the [[Hungarian language]] from the [[University of Westminster]] (UK) and [[University of Debrecen]] (Hungary). His history of Hungary, ''The Will to Survive'', fulfills an aspiration which grew out of his deep interest in the country where he served three years as ambassador. He subsequently wrote ''[[Mihály Károlyi|Károlyi]] & [[István Bethlen|Bethlen]]: Hungary - [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|The Peace Conferences of 1919–23]] and their Aftermath'' for the "Makers of the Modern World" series by [[Haus Publishing]].
{{Start box}} {{S-aca}} {{s-bef| before=[[John Bamborough]]}} {{s-ttl| title=Principal of [[Linacre College, Oxford]] | years=1988–1996}} {{s-aft| after=[[Paul Slack]]}} {{s-end}}
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==External links== *[http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/authors/bryan-cartledge Bryan Cartledge] - biography on literary agency site
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yzrk] - appearances on BBC’s Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game
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