Nigel Oliver Willoughby Steward,

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(16 October 1899 – 13 May 1991) was a British diplomat who served as British Minister to Paraguay and to Nicaragua.

Biography

The son of Arthur Bennett Steward, ICS, and Alice Willoughby, Steward was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...

(where he was a Scholar) and

Trinity College, Oxford Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in E ...

. He entered

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in 1924, and was successively Vice-Consul in San Francisco in 1926, in Valparaiso in 1930, in Guatemala (with the local rank of Second Secretary in the Foreign Service) in 1933, and Paris in 1937. He was promoted to Consul (with the local rank of First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service) at Montevideo in 1938. Seward was appointed British

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to Paraguay in 1944, then transferred to Bucharest as First Secretary in 1946. The same year, he was promoted to Promoted to be Foreign Service Officer, Grade 6 and appointed Deputy Consul-General at New York in 1946–48. He was British Minister to Nicaragua in 1948–52, Consul-General at Nice and Monaco in 1952–55, and Consul-General at Haifa in 1955–59. He was appointed an OBE in 1946. He married Raquel Wyneken in 1933; they had three daughters.

References

* https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-175663 {{DEFAULTSORT:Steward, Nigel 1899 births 1991 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Members of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century British diplomats British expatriates in Paraguay British expatriates Expatriates in Nicaragua