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Roger Stevens

British academic, diplomat and civil servant

Sir Roger Bentham Stevens, GCMG (8 June 1906 – 20 February 1980) was a British diplomat and civil servant who later served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.2

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Born Jun 8, 1906, died Feb 20, 1980.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedThe Queen's College3
  • Date not recordedWellington College3

Stevens was born 8 June 1906. He was educated at Wellington College and Queen's College, Oxford.

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Career

Occupation: diplomat.7

  • 1963 to 1970Chief executive, University of Leeds5
  • 1963 to 1970Vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds6
  • 1954 to 1958Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Iran6
  • 1951 to 1954Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Sweden6
  • Date not recordedWorked at Foreign Office4

Diplomatic career

In 1928 Stevens entered the UK Consular Service, serving in Buenos Aires, New York City, Antwerp, Denver, and the Foreign Office in London.

In 1951 he was appointed British Ambassador to Sweden, then in 1954, British Ambassador to Persia. He wrote two books on Persia, The Land of the Great Sophy (1962) and First View of Persia (1964), and continued to contribute to academic journals on the same subject in later life. In 1958 he returned to London as Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, until 1963.

Later career

In 1963 Stevens was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds in succession to Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere. He remained at Leeds until 1970 when he was in turn succeeded by Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth.

Stevens additionally served as:

Advisor to First Secretary of State on Central Africa, 1963–1970

Chairman of Yorkshire and Humberside Economic Planning Council, 1965–1970,

Member of the Panel of Inquiry into Greater London Development Plan, 1970–1972,

Chairman of the Committee on Mineral Planning Control, 1972–1974,

Member of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), 1972–1977.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom8

Stevens was married to Constance Hallam Hipwell (died 1976) in 1931 and they later had a son, Bryan Constant Sebastian Bentham Stevens. His second wife was Jane Chandler (née Irving) whom he married in 1977.

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Awards

  • 1964Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George9

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