David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick

The Lord Hannay of Chiswick
The Right Honourable; The Lord Hannay of Chiswick; GCMG CH
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 June 2001; Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	28 September 1935
Political party	Crossbench

David Hugh Alexander Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick GCMG CH (born 28 September 1935) is a British diplomat.[1]

Biography

Hannay was born in London and educated at Craigflower Preparatory School, Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[1] He entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1959, and was initially posted to positions in Tehran and Kabul. Starting in 1965 and continuing into the early 1970s, he was a representative of the British government in discussions which led to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community in 1973.

He held various positions at the Foreign Office in London during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a minister at the British Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1984–1985, and was then promoted to ambassador and permanent representative to the European Economic Community from 1985 to 1990. After that posting he spent the next five years as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations.

Whilst in his role as ambassador to the UN in 1994, Hannay was one of several who objected to the use of the term genocide in a Security Council draft resolution on the killings in Rwanda. The term was removed from the final resolution thus delaying UN action to prevent further bloodshed.[2]

Hannay took on specialised roles such as United Nations Special Representative for Cyprus between 1996 and 2003 and was a member of the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, reporting to the Secretary-General in December 2004.

Honours and awards

In 1981 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG),[3] in 1986 a Knight Commander (KCMG)[4] and in 1995 a Knight Grand Cross (GCMG).[5]

On 19 June 2001 he was created a life peer as Baron Hannay of Chiswick, of Bedford Park in the London Borough of Ealing,[6] sitting as a crossbencher.

He was pro-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 2001 to 2006.[7]

In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour.[8]

Lord Hannay was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Birmingham University in 2003.[9]

Other

He chaired the Board of United Nations Association UK from January 2006 to January 2011 and is now chair of the UN All-Party Parliamentary Group. He is currently a member of the Top Level Group for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation and a member of the Lords International Relations Committee.

Family

David Hannay was married to Gillian Hannay who died in 2015. He has four sons (Richard, Philip, Jonathan and Alexander) and twelve grandchildren (Peter, Charlotte, Juliette, Edward, Robin, Manon, Gustavo, Harry, Sophie, Julian, Albert and Theodore).

Publications

Cyprus: The Search for a Solution. London: I.B.Tauris, 2005. ISBN 9781850436652
Britain's Quest for a Role: A Diplomatic Memoir from Europe to the UN. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN 9781780760568

gollark: And saw and missed a gold, yaaaay.

gollark: Simultaneously missed a copper & thalssa!

gollark: "Common or Garden Dragon"?

gollark: I had a stupidly high view count with some AR testing.

gollark: On the plus side, the viewbombing of AoND is convenient due to my strategy of just forgetting about eggs for a few days then sticking them in.

References

Baron Hannay of Chiswick. International Who's Who. 2004. p. 686. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
http://www.lindamelvern.com/images/pdf/missing_the_story.pdf
"No. 48467". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1980. p. 4.
"No. 50361". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1985. p. 3.
"No. 53893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1994. p. 3.
"No. 56253". The London Gazette. 22 June 2001. p. 7408..
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 5.
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/senate/honorary-graduates-since-2000.pdf

External links

Biography from the Birmingham University website
Biography from the UK Parliament website
Lords EU Select Committee on the UK Parliament website
UNA-UK Biography on the UNA-UK website
Interview with Lord Hannay of Chiswick & transcript, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1999
Appearances on C-SPAN

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Sir Michael Butler	UK Permanent Representative to the European Union 1985–1990	Succeeded by John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
Preceded by Crispin Tickell	UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1990–1995	Succeeded by John Weston
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Lord Rooker	Gentlemen Baron Hannay of Chiswick	Followed by The Lord Ouseley

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[whoswho-1] Baron Hannay of Chiswick. International Who's Who. 2004. p. 686. Retrieved 10 November 2014.

[2] ttp://www.lindamelvern.com/images/pdf/missing_the_story.pdf

[3] "No. 48467". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1980. p. 4.

[4] "No. 50361". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1985. p. 3.

[5] "No. 53893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1994. p. 3.

[6] "No. 56253". The London Gazette. 22 June 2001. p. 7408..

[7] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[8] "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 5.

[9] ttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/senate/honorary-graduates-since-2000.pdf