Sir Peter Gordon Wallis, KCVO, CMG (born 1935) is a retired British diplomat and civil servant. He was the British High Commissioner to Malta between 1991 and 1994. Educated at

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, Wallis joined the

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in 1958 and worked in the

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and

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, before joining

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in 1968. He went on to serve as Minister at the British Embassy in

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(1987–88), and Minister (1989) and then acting High Commissioner (1990) to

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; he was briefly political adviser to the Joint Commander of the British Forces in the Gulf in 1991 and to the Commander of the British Forces in South East Turkey and North Iraq later in that year. He was appointed a Companion of the

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in the 1990 Birthday Honours, and a Knight Commander of the

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in 1992.''The London Gazette''
30 June 1992 (issue 52977), p. 10977.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Peter Living people 1935 births British diplomats British civil servants Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford