Reader Bullard
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Sir Reader William Bullard KCB KCMG CIE |
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"In Memoriam Bullard" memorial stone in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, England
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| British Ambassador to Iran | |
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In office 1942–1946 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Horace Seymour |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Le Rougetel |
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| Born |
5 December 1885 Walthamstow, Essex, England |
| Died | 24 May 1976 (aged 90) Wantage, Oxfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Miriam Catherine Smith (m.1921) |
| Children | 5 (4 sons, 1 daughter) |
| Parents | Charles Bullard Mary Westlake |
| Relatives |
Sir Giles Bullard, son Sir Julian Bullard, son |
| Alma mater | Queens’ College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Diplomat and author |
Sir Reader William Bullard KCB KCMG CIE (5 December 1885 – 24 May 1976) was a British diplomat and author.
Reader Bullard was born in Walthamstow, the son of Charles, a dock labourer, and Mary Bullard. He was educated at the Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, northeast London, and spent two years studying at Queens' College, Cambridge. He entered the Levant (Western Asia) Consular Service of the Foreign Office in 1906.
Bullard held various diplomatic positions during his career:
In Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean describes how Bullard and General Joseph Baillon, the Chief of Staff, requested him to kidnap a powerful Persian. They were concerned about the influence of Fazlollah Zahedi, the general in charge of the Persian forces in the Isfahan area, who, their intelligence told them, was stockpiling grain, liaising with German agents, and preparing an uprising. Baillon and Bullard asked Maclean to remove Zahidi alive and without creating a fuss, and so he did so. (Zahidi spent the rest of the war in British Palestine; five years later he was back in charge of the military of southern Persia, by 1953 he was prime minister.)
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