Mervyn Brown
Sir Mervyn Brown KCMG OBE (born 24 September 1923) is a British retired ambassador and historian of Madagascar.
Career
Brown was educated at Murton, where his parents lived, then Ryhope Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Artillery 1942–45 and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1949. After serving at Buenos Aires and at the UK mission to the United Nations in New York, in 1960 he was appointed consul in Vientiane, Laos, and deputy to the ambassador (John Addis). He later wrote a memoir of his experience of the Laotian Civil War, including a month spent as a prisoner of the Pathet Lao.
Brown was Ambassador to Madagascar 1967–70, High Commissioner to Tanzania and concurrently Ambassador to Madagascar (this time non-resident) 1975–78, and High Commissioner to Nigeria and concurrently Ambassador to Benin 1979–83.
Brown was appointed OBE in the 1963 New Year Honours, and CMG in the 1975 New Year Honours. He was knighted KCMG in the 1981 New Year Honours. He is an Officier of the Ordre National of Madagascar. He is a patron of the charity Money for Madagascar.
Publications
- 1923 births
- Living people
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
- Royal Artillery officers
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Madagascar
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Tanzania
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Nigeria
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Benin
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- British male writers
- 20th-century British historians
- British expatriates in the United States
- British expatriates in Argentina
- British expatriates in Laos
- British people imprisoned abroad
- Prisoners and detainees of Laos