Roger Stevens (diplomat)
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Sir Roger Bentham Stevens (June 8, 1906 - February 20, 1980) was a British academic, diplomat and civil servant.Stevens was born 8 June 1906. He married his first wife, Constance Hallam Hipwell (died 1976), in 1931, and they later had a son. His second wife was Jane Chandler (née Irving), whom he married in 1977. He died on 20 February 1980, and she deposited his papers in the Churchill Archives, University of Cambridge in 1984.In 1928 Stevens entered the UK Consular Service, serving in Buenos Aires, New York, Antwerp, Denver, and the Foreign Office in London.In 1951 he was appointed British…mehr

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Sir Roger Bentham Stevens (June 8, 1906 - February 20, 1980) was a British academic, diplomat and civil servant.Stevens was born 8 June 1906. He married his first wife, Constance Hallam Hipwell (died 1976), in 1931, and they later had a son. His second wife was Jane Chandler (née Irving), whom he married in 1977. He died on 20 February 1980, and she deposited his papers in the Churchill Archives, University of Cambridge in 1984.In 1928 Stevens entered the UK Consular Service, serving in Buenos Aires, New York, Antwerp, Denver, and the Foreign Office in London.In 1951 he was appointed British Ambassador to Sweden, then in 1954, British Ambassador to Persia. He wrote two books on Persia, The Land of the Great Sophy (1962) and First View of Persia (1964), and continued to contribute to academic journals on the same subject in later life. In 1958 he returned to London as Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, until 1963.