George Middleton (diplomat)


Sir George Humphrey Middleton was a British diplomat.
He served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Lebanon, Argentina and Egypt. He was also Chief Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Residency and Chargé d'affaires in Iran during the Abadan Crisis.

Personal life

He married first in 1934, Elizabeth Rosalie Okeden Pockley, the Australian detective novelist Elizabeth Antill. They divorced and he then married Francoise Sarthou,, an interior decorator and patron of the international charity Children and Families Across Borders. She was formerly married to the French diplomat Philip Dahan-Bouchard.