Sir Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard KCMG (30 October 1926 – 21 February 2020) was a British diplomat and author.^[1] He was educated at Repton School and read classics at Wadham College, Oxford University.^[2] His career in the foreign service began in 1961.^[2] He became the British Ambassador to Switzerland from 1980.^[3] He returned to London as Deputy Under Secretary of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1982 to 1984.^[2] From 1984 to 1986, he was Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Japan.^[2] In 1983 he received the Order of St Michael and St George^[4] and in 2003, the Order of the Rising Sun.^[2] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Giffard, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 15 publications in 1 language and 1,120 library holdings.^[5]

Bibliography

• Ai no Shogen (The Flowers are fallen) by Rinzō Shiina, 1961, translated from the Japanese by Giffard
• Japan among the powers 1880–1990, 1994
• Guns, kites and horses: three diaries from the Western front, 2003

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