Sir Derek Malcolm Day (29 November 1927 – 7 March 2015) was a British diplomat and

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player who competed ta the

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Biography

Day was educated at

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and studied at

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. In between his studies he completed National Service in the Royal Artillery. He represented

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in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in

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. winning a bronze medal. Day competed in all of the matches except the bronze medal play off when Graham Dadds was given an opportunity to play. He played hockey for

Southgate Hockey Club Southgate Hockey Club is a field hockey club based at Southgate Hockey Centre in Trent Park, near Oakwood, London, Oakwood in London. The men's 1st XI play in the Men's England Hockey League. The club has 9 men's sides, 5 ladies' sides and a l ...

at club level and Middlesex at county level. Day joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1951 and went on to serve as UK Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1975 to 1978, and UK High Commissioner to Canada from 1984 to 1987. He was made in 1984, having been made CMG in 1973.

Honours

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III ...

(KCMG) - 1984

References

External links

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Interview with Sir Derek Malcolm Day

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British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1997 {{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Derek Malcolm 1927 births 2015 deaths People educated at Hurstpierpoint College Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge British male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in field hockey Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ethiopia High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Canada Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Bachelor Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Southgate Hockey Club players