Sir Peter Laurence, who has died aged 84, was British ambassador to Turkey from to Hugely intelligent, reliable, likeable and courageous, he learned Turkish before his appointment - a symbol of his willingness and ability to continue to learn. Laurence was born in Worcestershire, the eldest of five children of the Venerable George Laurence, archdeacon of Lahore, and his wife Alice. When he was 11, his mother died in a car accident in which he himself was also injured. Thereafter much of his upbringing was in the hands of an aunt. He was educated at Radley college, Oxfordshire, before winning an open scholarship in classics at Christ Church, Oxford. However, it was and instead of Oxford he went straight into the 60th Rifles, in which he served for five years, winning an MC for leading his platoon with great bravery in the Italian campaign and rising to major at the age of Taking up his Oxford place inhe seemed poised for high academic honours. However, assured by his tutor of his Little Alice Escort Prices prospect of a first, the Foreign Office pressed for him to join inso that he never took his degree his non-graduate status remaining a source of family amusement ever after. In the same year, he married his Oxford contemporary Elizabeth Way, by whom he was to have three children. His first foreign posting was to Athens and thereafter Trieste. Back in London, his spell in the Levant department included the Suez debacle. He and Little Alice Escort Prices other horrified members of the department were narrowly prevented from following Anthony Nutting, then minister of state in the Foreign Office, in mass resignation, but as a gesture of disgust Laurence threw his Anthony Eden hat into the dustbin and never wore a hat again. Three years in the commercial section in the Prague embassy gave him a first taste of life behind the Iron Curtain, restricted but far from devoid of interest. Egypt's reopening of diplomatic relations with Britain inand its need for practical help, saw Laurence removed, at short notice, to the commercial section in Cairo. After two years there he returned to London for six years. There followed an appointment requiring much political discernment, that of political adviser in Berlin at the height of the cold war. There, in the rank of counsellor, Laurence worked closely with successive C-in-Cs Berlin, Sir John Nelson and James Bowes-Lyon, in the still four-power administration of the city, including the guarding of the remaining prisoner in Spandau jail, Rudolf Hess. A year's virtual sabbatical as a visiting fellow of All Souls, which enabled Laurence to write a useful but rather dense study of Ostpolitik, led to four years in Paris in charge of the commercial department, a post which enabled a good range of contact with French life beyond the diplomatic enclave. His penultimate appointment was of a quite different sort, as chief inspector of embassies, entailing much travel. Four years of this brought him to the verge of his own embassy, but timings ensured a fallow year in which he set himself to learn Turkish. Six months spent incognito in Bursa furnished him with a creditable command of the language. This was to stand him in good stead during his three years as ambassador in Ankara, more particularly since within a few months of his arrival a coup brought the Turkish generals to power. Mercifully they picked as foreign minister one who proved congenial to Laurence. In retirement Laurence scorned lucrative directorships in favour of unpaid responsibilities with the Woodard schools and Exeter cathedral, continuing among other things to take an interest in the affairs of St George's church, Paris. His chairmanship of Grenville college, Bideford, helped that school's special provision for dyslexic pupils, whilst trusteeship of the cathedral's music foundation reflected his lifelong love of music. He read and walked often alone, especially in Norway and was a conscientious member of the Church of England. He carried Little Alice Escort Prices good looks and energetic mind into old age. He is survived by Elizabeth and two sons. A daughter predeceased him. This article is more than 16 years old. British ambassador to Turkey during the generals' coup of Reuse this content. Most viewed.
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