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Sir Cecil Cuthbert Parrott (29 January 1909–23 June 1984) was a British diplomat, translator, writer and scholar. After studies at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he became a teacher. He joined the
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in 1939. His diplomatic career culminated with his posting to
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, where he was the British Ambassador from 1960 to 1966. On retiring from the Foreign Office, he became first Professor of Russian and Soviet Studies and later Professor of Central and South-Eastern European Studies and Director of the Comenius Centre at the University of Lancaster. Parrott is best known for his translation of Jaroslav Hašek's '' The Good Soldier Švejk''. He also translated some of Hašek's short stories, ''The Red Commissar''. He also wrote a study of Hašek's short stories. He wrote two autobiographical volumes, ''The Tightrope'' and ''The Serpent and the Nightingale'', as well as his biography of Hašek, ''The Bad Bohemian''. His son, Jasper Parrott, is a businessman involved in artists' management. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=neKm1X6YPY0C&pg


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Propagandistic documentary ''Vysoká hra'' (1977), where is mentioned also Cecil Parrott
(in Czech, first mentioned at time 4:54) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parrott, Cecil 1909 births 1984 deaths Academics of Lancaster University Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Czechoslovakia English translators Members of HM Diplomatic Service Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century British translators 20th-century British diplomats