Anne Warburton
| Dame Anne Warburton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anne Marion Warburton 8 June 1927 |
| Died | 4 June 2015 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Occupation | British diplomat |
Dame Anne Warburton DCVO CMG (8 June 1927 – 4 June 2015) was a British diplomat who was the first female British ambassador. She served as British Ambassador to Denmark from 1976 to 1983, and British Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1983 to 1985. Having retired from her diplomatic career, she was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge from 1985 to 1994.
Anne Marion Warburton was educated at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Somerville College, Oxford. She worked at the London office of the Economic Cooperation Administration 1949–52, at the NATO Secretariat, then located in Paris, 1952–54, and for Lazard Brothers in London, 1955–57. In 1958 she entered the Diplomatic Service in Branch A (the senior branch) and after two years at the Foreign Office was posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations at New York 1959–62; during this time she was promoted to First Secretary. She served at the British embassy at Bonn 1962–65, then in the newly created Diplomatic Service Administration Office in London 1965–67. She then moved back to the Foreign Office – which became the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1968 – until 1970 when she was posted as Counsellor to the UK's Geneva Mission to the United Nations. After a further period at the FCO as head of the Guidance and Information Policy department, 1975–76, she was appointed British Ambassador to Denmark in April 1976 and remained there until 1983.
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