Mark Pellew

{{Short description|British diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Use British English|date=January 2015}} '''Mark Edward Pellew''' CVO (born 28 August 1942), a British diplomat, was Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Holy See 1998–2002.<ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%2085 British Diplomatic Oral History Programme interview], Churchill College, Cambridge</ref>

Pellew was educated at Winchester College<ref>Maclure, P. S. W. K.; Stevens, R. P. ''Winchester College, A Register''. Winchester College, 2014. p. 333</ref> and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Foreign Office in 1965.<ref name=WW/> He was 1st Secretary in Rome 1976–1980, and Assistant Head of the Personnel Operations Department 1981–1983. He was seconded to Hambros Bank (1989–1991), and served as a Counsellor in Washington (1983–1989). He was Head of the North American Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1991–1996).<ref name="WW">[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U30474 PELLEW, Mark Edward], ''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref>

After leaving the Diplomatic Service he was Chief Executive to the Secretary-General of the Anglican Consultative Council 2002–05.<ref name=WW/>

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