Simon Mark Featherstone (24 July 1958 – 26 August 2014) was a British diplomat whose posts included High Commissioner to Malaysia.

Career

Simon Featherstone was educated at

Whitgift School Whitgift School is an independent day school with limited boarding in South Croydon, London. Along with Trinity School of John Whitgift and Old Palace School it is owned by the Whitgift Foundation, a charitable trust. The school was prev ...

and

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Flemin ...

. He joined the

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in 1980 and after language training at

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and in Hong Kong served in Beijing, Brussels and Shanghai. He was British

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...

to Switzerland and non-resident ambassador to

Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (, ; ; ), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein ( ), is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked, doubly landlocked Swiss Standard German, German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east ...

2004–08, the

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's International Representative on Energy Issues in 2008, UK director for the 2010 Shanghai Expo (where the UK pavilion won the award for best pavilion design) and was British High Commissioner to Malaysia from October 2010 until ill health forced him to retire in May 2014. While in Malaysia, he was also one of the patrons of the

British Theatre Playhouse The British Theatre Playhouse (BTP) is a professional theatrical and musical production company incorporated in Singapore in 2004. With the motto ''Bringing to the World the Best in British Entertainment'', the BTP is internationally focused with ...

, a theatrical and musical production company that works with British entertainment shows. Featherstone was appointed

Companion 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 I ...

(CMG) in the

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of 2011.

References

FEATHERSTONE, Simon Mark
''Who's Who 2014'', online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013.
Simon Featherstone, Esq, CMG Authorised Biography
Debrett's People of Today. 1958 births 2014 deaths 20th-century British diplomats 21st-century British diplomats Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Liechtenstein Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Consuls-general for the United Kingdom in Shanghai High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malaysia People educated at Whitgift School {{UK-diplomat-stub