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'''Sir Nicholas Maxted Fenn''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG}} (19 February 1936 &ndash; 18 September 2016)<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=nicholas-maxted-fenn&pid=181460449 Nicholas Maxted Fenn]</ref> was a British diplomat. He was High Commissioner to India from 1991 to 1996.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Nicholas Fenn was born in east London,<ref name="interiew">{{Cite web|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909202644/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 September 2015|title=Sir Nicholas (Maxted) Fenn GCMG}}</ref> the son of Professor J. Eric Fenn and Kathleen (née Harrison). He was educated at [[Kingswood School]] in Bath and, following national service in the [[Royal Air Force]], at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]].<ref>{{Who's Who | title = FENN, Sir Nicholas (Maxted) | id = U15608 | type = was | volume = 2025 | edition = online}}</ref> While at university he was chair of the Cambridge University branch of the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]].<ref name="interiew"/><br />
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He lived in [[Marden, Kent]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/09/sir-nicholas-fenn-obituary Sir Nicholas Fenn obituary] Retrieved 23/4/21.</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
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Fenn entered the [[Foreign Office]] in 1959 and worked as secretaries at various posts overseas, spokesperson at the FCO and as counselor at the British Embassy in Peking. Fenn was fluent in Burmese after undergoing training in 1960 and assigned to Burma in the early 1960s.<br />
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Fenn's ambassadorships included Rangoon (1982–86) and Dublin (1986–91). Fenn retired in 1996.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://us.swanhellenic.com/speaker.html?cruiseid=18669&areaid=13424&hot=&speakerid=370 | title=Biographical details | accessdate=October 25, 2012 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203115450/http://us.swanhellenic.com/speaker.html?cruiseid=18669&areaid=13424&hot=&speakerid=370 | archive-date=February 3, 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Following his career with the diplomatic service Fenn served as chief executive of [[Marie Curie (charity)|Marie Curie]], from 1997 to 2000, after retiring as chief executive he continued to serve the charity as chair of its council of trustees until 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Nicholas Fenn, diplomat at the heart of great events – obituary |website=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=22 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701150431/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/22/sir-nicholas-fenn-diplomat-at-the-heart-of-great-events--obituar/ |archive-date=1 July 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/22/sir-nicholas-fenn-diplomat-at-the-heart-of-great-events--obituar/}}</ref><br />
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From 1972 to 1975 he was with the Energy Department (as Deputy Head) in the Foreign Office and at the [[Royal College of Defence Studies]] in 1978.<ref>https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316202529/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Fenn.pdf |date=16 March 2016 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><br />
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