Edward Emile Tomkins born 16 November 1916; St Bede's House left 1934; Trinity College, Cambridge; diplomat 1939-1940 and 1944-1975 - serving as British Ambassador to France 1972-75; army 1940-44 - being liason officer to the Free French forces and a prisoner of war in Italy 1942-44; CVO 1957; CMG 1960;  KCMG 1969; CGMG 1975; Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur 1984; married Gillian Benson (died 2003) 1955 (3 children); died 20 September 2007

as a diplomat after 1944, he served in Moscow 1944-46, in London 1944-51, Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (Ernest Bevin and then Herbert Morrison) 1948-51, First Secretary in Washington 1951-55, counsellor in Paris 1955-59, head of the Western Department in London 1959-63, Minister in Bonn, Ambassador to the Hague 1970-72, Ambassador to France 1972-75

Daily Telegraph 25 September 2007 obituary

Sir Edward Tomkins married Gillian Benson in 1955. They had three children: Julian (O74), Sally and Louise.  Lady Tomkins died in 2003.

OA Deaths 2007

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