Sir George Humphrey Middleton (21 January 1910 – 12 February 1998) was a British diplomat. He served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Lebanon (1956–1958), Argentina (1961–1964) and Egypt (1964–1965). He was also Chief Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Residency and Chargé d'affaires in Iran during the

Abadan Crisis The Abadan Crisis ( ''Bohrân Nafti Irân'', "Iran Oil Crisis") occurred from 1951 to 1954, after Iran nationalised the Iranian assets of the BP controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in t ...

.''Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran'', Edited by Mark j. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne, Syracuse University Press, 2004, p.52

Personal life

He married first in 1934, Elizabeth Rosalie Okeden (Tina) Pockley, the Australian detective novelist Elizabeth Antill. They divorced and he then married Francoise Sarthou, (1927-2019), an interior decorator and patron of the international charity Children and Families Across Borders. She was formerly married to the French diplomat Philip Dahan-Bouchard.

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;General * ;Specific 1910 births 1998 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Argentina Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Lebanon Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Egypt Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George People educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate {{UK-diplomat-stub