# David Miers

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{{Short description|British diplomat (born 1937)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name             = Sir David Miers
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| ambassador_from  = British
| country          = the Netherlands
| term_start       = 1993
| term_end         = 1996
| predecessor      = [Sir Michael Jenkins](/source/Michael_Jenkins_(diplomat))
| successor        = [Dame Rosemary Spencer](/source/Rosemary_Spencer)
| ambassador_from1 = British
| country1         = Greece
| term_start1      = 1989
| term_end1        = 1993
| predecessor1     = [Sir Jeremy Thomas](/source/Jeremy_Thomas_(diplomat))
| successor1       = [Oliver Miles](/source/Oliver_Miles)
| ambassador_from2 = British
| country2         = Lebanon
| term_start2      = 1983
| term_end2        = 1985
| predecessor2     = [Sir David Roberts](/source/David_Roberts_(diplomat))
| successor12      = [Sir John Gray](/source/John_Gray_(diplomat))
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| birth_name       = Henry David Alastair Capel Miers
| occupation       = Diplomat 
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'''Sir Henry David Alastair Capel Miers'''<ref>Ruth Northey, ''Whitaker's Almanack 2012'' (A&amp;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](/source/Winchester_College) and [University College, Oxford](/source/University_College%2C_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](/source/Conscription_in_the_United_Kingdom) as an officer in the [Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders](/source/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](/source/Her_Majesty's_Diplomatic_Service) in 1961 and held appointments in Japan, Laos, France, Iran and at the [Foreign Office](/source/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office) in London, before becoming [Ambassador to Lebanon](/source/List_of_Ambassadors_of_the_United_Kingdom_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](/source/List_of_Ambassadors_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_Greece), before serving as [Ambassador to the Netherlands](/source/List_of_diplomats_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_the_Netherlands) between 1993 and 1996. Miers was invested as a [Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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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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