{{Short description|British diplomat (1939–2025)}} {{Use British English|date=November 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} '''Anthony David Brighty''' CMG CVO (7 February 1939 – 28 October 2025) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to several countries.

==Life and career== Anthony David Brighty was educated at Northgate Grammar School (now Northgate High School (Ipswich)) and Clare College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign Office in 1961, served in Brussels and Havana, then in 1969 resigned and spent two years working for S. G. Warburg & Co. He rejoined the Foreign Office in 1971 and served at Saigon and at the UK mission to the United Nations in New York City, then attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1979. He was head of the Personnel Operations Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1980–83, Counsellor at Lisbon 1983–86, and Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary General of NATO (Lord Carrington) 1986–87. He was ambassador to Cuba 1989–91 and to Czechoslovakia 1991–93, then after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia he was ambassador both to the Czech Republic and (non-resident) to Slovakia 1993–94.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ambassador-to-czechoslovakia-takes-on-new-republics-1476030.html Ambassador to Czechoslovakia takes on new republics], ''The Independent'', London, 2 January 1993</ref> He was ambassador to Spain and (non-resident) to Andorra 1994–98.

After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, Brighty was a non-executive director of EFG Private Bank and of Henderson EuroMicro Investment Trust. In 2003 he was [http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/robin-humphreys-fellows Robin Humphreys Fellow] at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. He was chairman of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/canadaBlanch/who.aspx |title=Who's Who – Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies |access-date=4 November 2013 |archive-date=4 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004062205/http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/canadaBlanch/who.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Brighty died on 28 October 2025, at the age of 86.<ref>{{cite news |title=David Brighty CMG CVO |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/births-marriages-and-deaths-november-11-2025-k7f3tvvzc |access-date=11 November 2025 |publisher=The Times |date=11 November 2025}}</ref>

==Publications== * [https://books.google.com/books/about/Cuba_under_Castro.html?id=WFUYAAAAYAAJ ''Cuba Under Castro: Ambassadorial Reflections''], Institute of Latin American Studies, 2004

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==Further reading== *[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U8731 BRIGHTY, (Anthony) David], ''Who's Who 2013'', A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012

{{S-start}} {{S-dip}} {{S-bef |before=Andrew Palmer}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador to Cuba |years=1989–1991}} {{S-aft |after=Leycester Coltman}} {{S-bef |before=Laurence O'Keeffe}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador to Czechoslovakia |years=1991–1993}} {{S-aft |after=himself, as ambassador to Czech Republic and Slovakia}} {{S-bef |before=himself, as ambassador to Czechoslovakia}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador to the Czech Republic |years=1993–1994}} {{S-aft |after=Sir Michael Burton}} {{S-bef |before=himself, as ambassador to Czechoslovakia}} {{S-ttl |title=Non-resident Ambassador to Slovakia |years=1993–1994}} {{S-aft |after=Michael Bates}} {{S-bef |before=Sir Robin Fearn}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador to Spain and non-resident Ambassador to Andorra |years=1994–1998}} {{S-aft |after=Peter Torry}} {{S-end}}

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