Shridath Ramphal was the foreign minister of Guyana from 1972 to 1975, and assistant attorney general of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962.
15 Facts About Shridath Ramphal
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Shridath Ramphal was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in London in 1951.
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Shridath Ramphal continued studying law for a year at Harvard Law School in the US on a 1962 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Shridath Ramphal started his legal career as a Crown Counsel in the Attorney-General's Office in 1953, becoming Solicitor-General and then Assistant Attorney-General of the short-lived West Indies Federation.
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Shridath Ramphal served as the Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 1989 to 2002, at the University of the West Indies from 1989 to 2003, and at the University of Guyana from 1990 to 1992.
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Sir Shridath Ramphal was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1966 Birthday Honours.
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Shridath Ramphal was knighted in the 1970 New Year Honours, and invested with his knighthood by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 3 February.
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Shridath Ramphal was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1990.
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On 26 February 1982, Sir Shridath Ramphal was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia.
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On 6 February 1990, Shridath Ramphal was the 19th appointee to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour.
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Shridath Ramphal was decorated as a Member of the Order of the Caribbean Community in the first conferment in 1992.
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In May 2006 Shridath Ramphal was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.
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Shridath Ramphal is a vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
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The Shridath Ramphal Building at the University of Warwick was named in his honour.
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Shridath Ramphal is portrayed by Tony Jayawardena in the fourth season of the Netflix web television series The Crown.