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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==
			[[File:Family grave of Hugh Carless.jpg\|thumb\|Family grave of Hugh Carless]]
	Carless was born on 22 April 1925 in [[Nainital]], [[British India]], to Henry Alfred Carless, [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]], who served as a police officer in the [[Indian Civil Service]] (Inspector-General of Police, [[Ajmer-Merwara]] and advisor to the Resident of Rajputana) and his wife, Gwendolen Pattullo.<ref name="ind_20111223">{{cite news\|title=Hugh Carless: Diplomat who explored the Hindu Kush with Eric Newby \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hugh-carless-diplomat-who-explored-the--hindu-kush-with-eric-newby-6280792.html\|date=23 December 2011\|first=Michael\|last=Smith\|work=The Independent}}</ref>		Carless was born on 22 April 1925 in [[Nainital]], [[British India]], to Henry Alfred Carless, [[Order of the Indian Empire\|CIE]], who served as a police officer in the [[Indian Civil Service]] (Inspector-General of Police, [[Ajmer-Merwara]] and advisor to the Resident of Rajputana) and his wife, Gwendolen Pattullo.<ref name="ind_20111223">{{cite news\|title=Hugh Carless: Diplomat who explored the Hindu Kush with Eric Newby \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hugh-carless-diplomat-who-explored-the--hindu-kush-with-eric-newby-6280792.html\|date=23 December 2011\|first=Michael\|last=Smith\|work=The Independent}}</ref>

	He was educated at [[Sherborne School]], Dorset, the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) where he spent a year (1942) studying [[Persian language\|Persian (Farsi)]], and [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] where he read History from 1947 until 1950.<ref name="Maitland">{{cite web\|last1=Maitland\|first1=Alexander\|title=Hugh Carless Obituary\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/22/hugh-carless-obituary\|~~publisher~~=[[The Guardian]]\|accessdate=8 October 2016\|date=22 January 2012}}</ref>		He was educated at [[Sherborne School]], Dorset, the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) where he spent a year (1942) studying [[Persian language\|Persian (Farsi)]], and [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] where he read History from 1947 until 1950.<ref name="Maitland">{{cite web\|last1=Maitland\|first1=Alexander\|title=Hugh Carless Obituary\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/22/hugh-carless-obituary\|work=[[The Guardian]]\|accessdate=8 October 2016\|date=22 January 2012}}</ref>

	Carless was commissioned in January 1944<ref>''London Gazette'' Issue 36409 published on 3 March 1944. Page 5</ref> in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)\|Intelligence Corps]] and posted to Teheran as a staff officer with the [[12th Infantry Division (India)\|12th Indian Division]], but volunteered for active service, first with the [[5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)\|5th Infantry Division]], and later, in the last nine months of World War II he served in the [[15th (Scottish) Infantry Division\|15th Scottish]] with the 6th Battalion of the [[Royal Scots Fusiliers]].<ref name="telegraph_20111212">{{cite news\|title=Obituaries – Hugh Carless\|work=The Telegraph\|date=21 December 2011\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8971440/Hugh-Carless.html}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=37835\|date=31 December 1946\|page=7\|supp=y}}</ref>		Carless was commissioned in January 1944<ref>''London Gazette'' Issue 36409 published on 3 March 1944. Page 5</ref> in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)\|Intelligence Corps]] and posted to Teheran as a staff officer with the [[12th Infantry Division (India)\|12th Indian Division]], but volunteered for active service, first with the [[5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)\|5th Infantry Division]], and later, in the last nine months of World War II he served in the [[15th (Scottish) Infantry Division\|15th Scottish]] with the 6th Battalion of the [[Royal Scots Fusiliers]].<ref name="telegraph_20111212">{{cite news\|title=Obituaries – Hugh Carless\|work=The Telegraph\|date=21 December 2011\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8971440/Hugh-Carless.html}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=37835\|date=31 December 1946\|page=7\|supp=y}}</ref>
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	Carless married Brazilian Rosa Maria Frontini in 1956. The couple had two sons.<ref name="telegraph_20111212" />		Carless married Brazilian Rosa Maria Frontini in 1956. The couple had two sons.<ref name="telegraph_20111212" />

			He is buried on the eastern side of [[Highgate Cemetery]] with his wife and one of his sons.

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'''Hugh Michael Carless''' <small>[[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]]</small> (22 April 1925 – 20 December 2011) was a British diplomat, philanthropist and explorer who served in [[Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service]] from 1950 to 1985. He is best known for the exploration of [[Nuristan]] and the [[Panjshir Valley]] along with his friend [[Eric Newby]], which was the subject of Newby's humorous travel book ''[[A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush]]'' (1958).

== Biography ==

Carless was born on 22 April 1925 in [[Nainital]], [[British India]], to Henry Alfred Carless, [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], who served as a police officer in the [[Indian Civil Service]] (Inspector-General of Police, [[Ajmer-Merwara]] and advisor to the Resident of Rajputana) and his wife, Gwendolen Pattullo.<ref name="ind_20111223">{{cite news|title=Hugh Carless: Diplomat who explored the Hindu Kush with Eric Newby |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hugh-carless-diplomat-who-explored-the--hindu-kush-with-eric-newby-6280792.html|date=23 December 2011|first=Michael|last=Smith|work=The Independent}}</ref>

He was educated at [[Sherborne School]], Dorset, the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) where he spent a year (1942) studying [[Persian language|Persian (Farsi)]], and [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] where he read History from 1947 until 1950.<ref name="Maitland">{{cite web|last1=Maitland|first1=Alexander|title=Hugh Carless Obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/22/hugh-carless-obituary|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=8 October 2016|date=22 January 2012}}</ref>

Carless was commissioned in January 1944<ref>''London Gazette'' Issue 36409 published on 3 March 1944. Page 5</ref> in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] and posted to Teheran as a staff officer with the [[12th Infantry Division (India)|12th Indian Division]], but volunteered for active service, first with the [[5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|5th Infantry Division]], and later, in the last nine months of World War II he served in the [[15th (Scottish) Infantry Division|15th Scottish]] with the 6th Battalion of the [[Royal Scots Fusiliers]].<ref name="telegraph_20111212">{{cite news|title=Obituaries – Hugh Carless|work=The Telegraph|date=21 December 2011|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8971440/Hugh-Carless.html}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37835|date=31 December 1946|page=7|supp=y}}</ref>

Carless entered [[His Majesty's Diplomatic Service]] in 1950 and served as Third Secretary in [[Kabul]] from 1951 to 1953 and Second Secretary in [[Rio de Janeiro]] from 1953 to 1956. From 1956 to 1958 Carless was posted to [[Tehran]] as First (Oriental) Secretary. Between 1958 and 1961 he worked in the Information Research Dept, FO, and as Private Secretary to [[Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee|Lord Dundee]], the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs<ref name="ind_20111223" /> (1961 to 1963). From 1963 to 1966 Carless served as Head of Chancery at the British Embassy in Budapest. Subsequent postings were as Consul-General to [[Angola]] from 1967 to 1970, and as Press and Information Counsellor to Bonn from 1970 to 1973. He headed the Latin America department of the Foreign Office from 1973 to 1977, before his ministerial appointment as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1977 until 1980, where he monitored the disputed sovereignty of islands in the Beagle Channel, and the Falklands. This was followed by a two-year secondment to Northern Engineering Industries International Limited. From 1982 to 1985 Carless served as Ambassador to [[Venezuela]] until his retirement.<ref name="telegraph_20111212" /> He retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1985 on superannuation.

Following his retirement in 1985, Carless served as Vice-Chairman of the South Atlantic Council based in London, and between 1994 and 1996 he chaired the influential series of Argentine-British Conferences which helped to re-instate full diplomatic relations between the two countries after the Falklands war. He was the executive vice-president of the philanthropic [[Hinduja Foundation]], which awarded scholarships to students from India.<ref name="telegraph_20111212" />

During his service as First Secretary in Tehran in 1956, Carless received a telegraph from the British explorer and travel writer, [[Eric Newby]], requesting him to accompany Newby on an expedition to the province of [[Nuristan]] in northern [[Afghanistan]], to which Carless replied in the affirmative. This expedition was the subject of Newby's much loved travel book ''[[A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush]]'' (1958).<ref name="telegraph_20111212" />

Carless married Brazilian Rosa Maria Frontini in 1956. The couple had two sons.<ref name="telegraph_20111212" />

== Honours ==

Carless was made a [[Order of St Michael and St George|Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] in 1976.<ref name="telegraph_20111212" />

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== External links ==
* {{cite web |url= http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%2055 |title=Hugh Carless |work=Janus: British Diplomatic Oral History Programme |year=2012 |accessdate=2 February 2012}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/BDOHP/Carless.pdf |title=Hugh Carless |work=Churchill College: Churchill Archives Centre: BDOHP |year=2012 |accessdate=2 February 2012}}

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