{{Short description|British diplomat (born 1937)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir David Miers | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CMG}} | image = | image_size = | alt = | order1 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by adding a number--> | ambassador_from = British | country = the Netherlands | term_start = 1993 | term_end = 1996 | predecessor = Sir Michael Jenkins | successor = Dame Rosemary Spencer | ambassador_from1 = British | country1 = Greece | term_start1 = 1989 | term_end1 = 1993 | predecessor1 = Sir Jeremy Thomas | successor1 = Oliver Miles | ambassador_from2 = British | country2 = Lebanon | term_start2 = 1983 | term_end2 = 1985 | predecessor2 = Sir David Roberts | successor12 = Sir John Gray | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | birth_name = Henry David Alastair Capel Miers | occupation = Diplomat }} '''Sir Henry David Alastair Capel Miers'''<ref>Ruth Northey, ''Whitaker's Almanack 2012'' (A&C Black, 18 October 2011), 104.</ref> {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CMG}} (born 10 January 1937), commonly known as '''Sir David Miers''', is a British retired ambassador.
==Career== Miers was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford.<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U27410 MIERS, Sir (Henry) David (Alastair Capel)], ''Who's Who 2016'', A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015, accessed 9 September 2016)</ref> He did National Service as an officer in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, commissioning into the regiment in 1956.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=10 August 1956 |issue=40851 |supp=y |page=4583}}</ref> He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1961 and held appointments in Japan, Laos, France, Iran and at the Foreign Office in London, before becoming Ambassador to Lebanon in 1983.<ref name="BLS">[http://www.britishlebanese.org/events/120520_sir_david_miers.htm Sir David Miers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917215456/http://www.britishlebanese.org/events/120520_sir_david_miers.htm |date=17 September 2016 }}, British Lebanese Society</ref> He served in that position until 1985.<ref name="BLS"/>
In 1989, he was made Ambassador to Greece, before serving as Ambassador to the Netherlands between 1993 and 1996. Miers was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1979<ref>{{London Gazette |date=16 June 1979 |issue=47869 |supp=y |page=3}}</ref> and as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1985.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=15 June 1985 |issue=50154 |supp=y |page=16}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%20144 Interview with Sir David Miers], British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2014
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