William Hugh Fullerton (born 11 February 1939) is a British retired diplomat Fullerton studied Oriental Languages at

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...

. He worked for Shell International Petroleum in Uganda from 1963 to 1965, leaving to join the

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. He attended a course at

MECAS The Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) was an Arabic language college created by the British Army during World War II in Jerusalem, and relocated afterwards as a civilian institution to Lebanon near Beirut where it functioned between 1947� ...

(1965-1966) and then served as Information Officer in

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(1966-1967). After spells in Jamaica and Turkey Fullerton was Consul-General in

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(1981-1983); Ambassador to Somalia (1983-1987);

Governor of the Falkland Islands The governor of the Falkland Islands is the representative of the British Crown in the Falkland Islands, acting "in His Majesty's name and on His Majesty's behalf" as the islands' Viceroy in the absence of the British monarch. The role and power ...

(1988-1992); and finally British Ambassador to Kuwait (1992-1996).

Honours

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) - 1989

References

1939 births Living people Members of HM Diplomatic Service Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Kuwait Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Somalia Governors of the Falkland Islands 20th-century British diplomats {{UK-diplomat-stub