1. Crispin Tickell was educated at Westminster School where he was a King's Scholar, and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Modern History.
20 Facts About Crispin Tickell
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Crispin Tickell did his national service in the Coldstream Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant from 1952 to 1954.
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Crispin Tickell joined the British diplomatic service in 1954, serving at the Foreign Office Main Building in London until 1955.
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Crispin Tickell then had a posting at the British Embassy in The Hague ; Mexico City ; London ; Paris ; and Private Secretary to various Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster during negotiations for the UK entry into the European Community.
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Crispin Tickell was later Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission, British Ambassador to Mexico, Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration, and British Ambassador to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the UN Security Council.
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Crispin Tickell was appointed MVO in 1958 and later knighted as a KCVO in 1983 on the Royal Yacht Britannia, to mark the conclusion of Queen Elizabeth's Official Visit to Mexico.
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Crispin Tickell was appointed GCMG for his work at the UN in 1988.
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Crispin Tickell was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1990 to 1993 and Warden of Green College, Oxford, between 1990 and 1997, where he appointed George Monbiot and Norman Myers as Visiting Fellows.
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Crispin Tickell was President of the Marine Biological Association from 1990 to 2001.
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Crispin Tickell was director of the Policy Foresight Programme of the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford and Chairman Emeritus of the Climate Institute, in Washington DC Crispin Tickell has many interests, including climate change, population issues, conservation of biodiversity, and the early history of the Earth.
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Margaret Thatcher credited Crispin Tickell with persuading her to make a speech on global climate change to the Royal Society in September 1988.
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Crispin Tickell chaired John Major's Government Panel on Sustainable Development, and was a member of two government task forces under the Labour Party: one on urban regeneration, chaired by Sir Richard Rogers, later Lord Rogers, and one on potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
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Crispin Tickell was an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
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Crispin Tickell was the recipient, between 1990 and 2006, of 23 honorary doctorates.
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Crispin Tickell was the president of the UK charity Tree Aid, which enables communities in Africa's drylands to fight poverty and become self-reliant, while improving the environment.
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Sir Crispin Tickell lived in a converted barn in the Cotswolds.
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Crispin Tickell married Chloe Gunn in 1954 but the marriage was dissolved in 1976.
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Crispin Tickell had two sons and one daughter from this marriage.
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Crispin Tickell's son is Oliver Tickell, former editor of The Ecologist.
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Crispin Tickell died from pneumonia on 25 January 2022, at the age of 91.