{{Short description|British diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=January 2014}} '''Sir Guy Elwin Millard''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CVO}} (22 January 1917 – 26 April 2013)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Millard, Sir Guy (Elwin), (22 Jan. 1917–26 April 2013), HM Diplomatic Service, retired|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-27478|access-date=2021-06-21|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u27478|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref> was a British diplomat who was closely involved in the Suez crisis, and afterwards ambassador to Hungary, Sweden and Italy.
==Career== Guy Elwin Millard was educated at Wixenford, Charterhouse, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1939, but served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34727 |page=7493 |date=7 November 1939}}</ref>
Millard was a junior secretary to Anthony Eden during the war, and when Eden became Prime Minister in 1955 he arranged for Millard to be seconded from the Foreign Office to be his Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs.<ref>[http://www.unmultimedia.org/oralhistory/2013/03/millard-fyfiled-guy-sir/ Interview with Sir Guy Millard] ''(incorrectly named in the catalogue page)'', Yale-UN Oral History Project, 20 April 1991</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=16 May 2013|title=Sir Guy Millard|work=The Times|issue=70886|url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/sir-guy-millard-5phs526ql9l}}</ref> He was thus closely involved with the Suez Crisis in 1956. Afterwards he wrote a detailed history of the episode, an edited version of which remains in the National Archives.<ref>''Memorandum on Relations between the United Kingdom, the United States and France in the months following Egyptian Nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company in 1956.'' Written by Guy Millard in August 1957 and published by the Cabinet Office for UK Eyes Only on 21 October 1957. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details/AssetMain?iaid=C4214599 National Archives CAB 21/3314]. This document does not spell out the detail of the collusion between France, Israel and the UK, but is not exactly the same as that written by Millard; the original version has disappeared. – Lord Owen, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111114034940/http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/6/387.full The effect of Prime Minister Anthony Eden's illness on his decision-making during the Suez crisis], QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 98 Issue 6, pp. 387-402, 6 May 2005 (footnote 11)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1 May 2013|title=Sir Guy Millard|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10031242/Sir-Guy-Millard.html|access-date=2021-06-21|website=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>
Millard was Ambassador to Hungary 1967–69,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=44516 |page=1355 |date=2 February 1968}}</ref> Minister in Washington, D.C., 1970–71, Ambassador to Sweden 1971–74<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=45588 |page=1282 |date=1 February 1972}}</ref> and Ambassador to Italy 1974–76.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=46357 |page=8113 |date=1 October 1974}}</ref> After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, he served as chairman of the British-Italian Society 1977–83.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-06-11|title=Sir Guy Millard: Diplomat who served during the Suez crisis|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-guy-millard-diplomat-who-served-during-suez-crisis-8654566.html|access-date=2021-06-21|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>
Millard was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1957 New Year Honours<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40960 |supp=y |page=4 |date=1 January 1957}}</ref> and a Companion of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1961 on the occasion of a state visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Iran, where Millard was stationed at the time.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=42305 |page=2057 |date=17 March 1961}}</ref> He was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)) in the 1972 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=45554 |supp=y |page=4 |date=1 January 1972}}]</ref> The Italian government made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit in 1981.<ref name=":1" />
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==External links== *{{UK National Archives ID|name=Millard, Sir Guy Elwin (b 1917) Knight Diplomat}}
{{S-start}} {{S-dip}} {{s-bef |before=Anthony Montague Browne}} {{S-ttl |title=Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister |years=1955–1957}} {{S-aft |after=Sir Philip de Zulueta}} {{s-bef |before=Sir Alexander Morley}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Budapest |years=1967–1969}} {{S-aft |after=Derek Dodson}} {{s-bef |before=Sir Moore Crosthwaite}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Stockholm |years=1971–1974}} {{S-aft |after=Sir Samuel Falle}} {{s-bef |before=Sir Patrick Hancock}} {{S-ttl |title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome |years=1974–1976}} {{S-aft |after=Sir Alan Campbell}} {{S-end}}
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