Charles Booth (diplomat)

Charles Leonard Booth, CMG LVO (7 March 1925 – 21 March 1997) was a British diplomat in the second half of the Twentieth century.

Charles Leonard Booth
High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malta
In office 1982–1985
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	David Aiers
Succeeded by	Stanley Duncan
List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Burma
In office 1978–1982
Prime Minister	James Callaghan Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Terence O'Brien
Succeeded by	Nicholas Fenn
Personal details
Born	(1925-03-07)7 March 1925 Heywood, England
Died	21 March 1997(1997-03-21) (aged 72) Southwold, England
Spouse	Gil Booth

Education

Booth was educated at Heywood Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford.

Military service

Booth was a captain in the Royal Artillery from 1943 until 1947.

Career

Booth joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1950. He was the Third then Second Secretary in Rangoon from 1951 to 1955. He was at the Foreign Office from 1955 to 1960. He was First Secretary in Rome from 1960 to 1963; then Head of Chancery at Rangoon from 1963 to 1964, and Bangkok from 1964 to 1967. He became a Counsellor in 1968 and after that was Deputy High Commissioner in Kampala from 1969 to 1971. He was Consul-General in Washington from 1971 to 1973; Counsellor in Belgrade from 1973 to 1977; Ambassador to Burma from 1978 to 1982; and finally, High Commissioner to Malta from 1982 to 1985.

Honours

He was awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1961. In that same year he was awarded the LVO. In 1979 he became a CMG.