{{short description|British former diplomat|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jeremy Cresswell | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CVO|size=100%}} | image = | office = British High Commissioner to Jamaica | term_start = 2005 | term_end = 2009 | prime_minister = Tony Blair<br />Gordon Brown | monarch = Elizabeth II | predecessor = Peter Mathers | successor = Howard Drake | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|10|1|df=yes}} }} '''Jeremy Michael Cresswell''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CVO}} (born 1 October 1949)<ref>{{Who's Who | author = [Anon.] | year = 2024 | title = Cresswell, Jeremy Michael | id = U12315 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12315}}</ref> is a British former diplomat<ref>{{London Gazette | issue = 46798 | date = 16 January 1976 | page = 786 | pages = | supp = | display-supp = | nolink = | city = London | title = FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE | quote = The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to appoint the undermentioned to be Officers of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service 22nd December 1975 Jeremy Michael Cresswell, Esquire | mode = | postscript = }}</ref> who was High Commissioner to Jamaicaand the Bahamas from 2005 to 2009. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in December 2009.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://mobile.jamaica-gleaner.com/20091206/arts/arts6.php | title = Nailing the jelly with Jeremy Cresswell | date = 6 December 2009 | publisher = Jamaica Gleaner | accessdate=7 March 2024}}</ref>
== Early life ==
Cresswell was born in Windsor. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School; Exeter College, Oxford; and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
== Career == Cresswell entered the FCO in 1972. He served in Brussels and Kuala Lumpur before becoming Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the FCO in 1980. He was later Deputy Head at the News Department; Assistant Head at the South America Department; Counsellor (Political) for the UK Delegation to NATO; Deputy Head of Mission in Prague; on the Senior Directing Staff at the RCDS; and Head of the European Union Department at the FCO. From 2001 to 2005 he was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin.
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{{s-start}} {{s-dip}} {{s-bef|before=Peter Mathers}} {{s-ttl|title=British High Commissioner to Jamaica|years=2005–2009}} {{s-aft|rows=2|after=Howard Drake}} {{s-bef|before=Roderick Gemmell}} {{s-ttl|title=British High Commissioner to the Bahamas|years=2005–2009}} {{s-end}}
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