Captain Sir Vyvyan Holt KBE CMG MVO (1896 – 2 July 1960) was a British soldier, diplomat, and Oriental scholar, who was held captive by North Korea for...
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author/translator, second son of Oscar Wilde Vyvyan Holt (1896–1960), British soldier, diplomat, and Oriental scholar Vyvyan Pope (1891–1941), British Army Second...
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Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland (born December 1945) is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has...
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posted thereafter to the British legation in Seoul, South Korea, under Vyvyan Holt, arriving on 6 November 1948. Under cover as a vice-consul, Blake's mission...
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31 July 1942) K. P. S. Menon (October 18, 1898 – November 22, 1982) Vyvyan Holt (1887–1960), diplomat and Oriental scholar, who was captured during the...
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to the British embassy in Baghdad. In 1944 he succeeded the scholar Vyvyan Holt as oriental counsellor. During his diplomatic postings he designed stamps...
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ambassador for North Korea did not exist until 2000. 1949–1954: Captain Vyvyan Holt (consul-general from 1948). 1954–1956: Charles Stewart 1957: Hubert Evans...
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in Magdalen Street, portrayed on the Series E (2005) £5 banknote Sir Vyvyan Holt (1896–1960), diplomat, orientalist and British minister, captured during...
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Deputy Director of the Intelligence Section, Air Ministry. Captain Vyvyan Holt, MVO, Oriental Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Baghdad. Maurice...
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Kinninmont Dunlop, CMG, CBE, MC, TD, Her Majesty's Consul General at Hamburg. Vyvyan Holt, CMG, MVO, lately Her Majesty's Minister at San Salvador. The Honourable...
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