Hugh Michael Carless CMG was a British diplomat, philanthropist and explorer who served in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1950 to 1985.
13 Facts About Hugh Carless
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Hugh Carless is best known for the exploration of Nuristan and the Panjshir Valley along with his friend Eric Newby, which was the subject of Newby's humorous travel book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.
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Hugh Carless was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, the School of Oriental and African Studies where he spent a year studying Persian, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read history from 1947 until 1950.
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Hugh Carless was commissioned in January 1944 in the Intelligence Corps and posted to Teheran as a staff officer with the 12th Indian Division, but volunteered for active service, first with the 5th Infantry Division, and later, in the last nine months of World War II he served in the 15th Scottish with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
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Hugh Carless entered His Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1950 and served as Third Secretary in Kabul from 1951 to 1953 and Second Secretary in Rio de Janeiro from 1953 to 1956.
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From 1956 to 1958 Hugh Carless was posted to Tehran as First Secretary.
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From 1963 to 1966 Hugh Carless served as Head of Chancery at the British Embassy in Budapest.
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Hugh Carless headed the Latin America department of the Foreign Office from 1973 to 1977, before his ministerial appointment as charge d'affaires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1977 until 1980, where he monitored the disputed sovereignty of islands in the Beagle Channel, and the Falklands.
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From 1982 to 1985 Hugh Carless served as Ambassador to Venezuela until his retirement.
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Hugh Carless retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1985 on superannuation.
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Hugh Carless was the executive vice-president of the philanthropic Hinduja Foundation, which awarded scholarships to students from India.
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Hugh Carless is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery with his wife and one of his sons.
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Hugh Carless was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1976.