1. Geoffrey Harrison's parents were Thomas Edmund Harrison, a commander in the Royal Navy, who was a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood III, and Maud Winifred Godman.
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Geoffrey Harrison was educated at Winchester College in Hampshire and then at King's College, Cambridge.
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Geoffrey Harrison joined the Foreign Office in 1932 and was posted to Japan and Germany before the outbreak of World War II.
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In October 1932, Geoffrey Harrison was appointed as a third secretary in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service, and in October 1937, he was promoted to second secretary.
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Geoffrey Harrison contributed to the British draft declaration on Austria for the 1943 Moscow Declaration.
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On 1 October 1956, Geoffrey Harrison was granted his first ambassadorship, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Brazil.
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Between 1963 and 1965, Geoffrey Harrison was based in London as Deputy Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office.
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On 27 August 1965, Geoffrey Harrison was appointed as ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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Geoffrey Harrison recalled not asking or knowing if she worked for the KGB, but he said that it was assumed that every Soviet employee at the embassy worked or was an agent for the Soviet secret service.
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When security concerns arose over the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, and after he had been sent incriminating photographs taken by the KGB, Geoffrey Harrison informed the Foreign Office of his indiscretion, which immediately terminated his appointment and recalled him to Britain.
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Geoffrey Harrison revealed the affair to The Sunday Times newspaper in 1981.
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Geoffrey Harrison was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year Honours of 1955.
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On 6 March 1961, Geoffrey Harrison was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.