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|honorific-prefix = |name = Sir Charles Peake |honorific-suffix = GCMG MC |image = Charles Peake.jpg |imagesize = |alt = |order1 = |ambassador_from = British |country = Greece |term_start = 1951 |term_end = 1957 |predecessor = Sir Clifford Norton |successor = Sir Roger Allen |ambassador_from1 = British |country1 = Serbia|Yugoslavia |term_start1 = 1946 |term_end1 = 1952 |predecessor1 = Sir Ralph Stevenson |successor1 = Sir Ivo Mallet |birth_date = 2 January 1897 |birth_place = Leicester, England |death_date = 10 April 1958 |death_place = London, England |nationality = British |party = |otherparty = |spouse = |relations = |children = |residence = |alma_mater = |occupation = Diplomat |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |religion = Church of England |signature = |signature_alt= |website = |footnotes = |blank1 = |data1 = |blank2 = |data2 = |blank3 = |data3 = |blank4 = |data4 = |blank5 = |data5 = |nickname = |allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |branch = British Army |serviceyears = 1915-1918 |rank = Lieutenant |unit = Royal Leicestershire Regiment |commands = |battles = First World War |awards = Military Cross |military_blank1 = |military_data1 = |military_blank2 = |military_data2 = |military_blank3 = |military_data3 = |military_blank4 = |military_data4 = |military_blank5 = |military_data5 = }}Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake {{post-nominals|GCMG|MC}} (2 January 1897 – 10 April 1958) was a British diplomat.[1] Peake served in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment during the First World War, being commissioned into the 1/4th Battalion in 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916.[2] His service also included attachment to the regiment's 9th Battalion. Peake was discharged in 1918. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1922. His first appointment was in Sofia, subsequently being posted to Tokyo, Paris, Washington DC and Tangier. In 1939, Peake became head of the Foreign Office News Department and chief press adviser at the Ministry of Information.[3] In 1941 he was posted to Washington as Acting Counsellor.[4] In 1946 he became Ambassador to Yugoslavia, before his appointment as Ambassador to Greece in 1951. He served in the position until 1957. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1956.[5] Peake married Catherine Marie Knight, with whom he had four sons.[6] References1. ^The Glasgow Herald (11 April 1958) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19580411&id=Q3xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oqMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5099,5214466 {{authority control}}2. ^The London Gazette (30 October 1914) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28957/page/8770/data.pdf 3. ^The London Gazette (16 January 1940) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34773/page/298/data.pdf 4. ^The London Gazette (14 October 1941) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35309/page/5960/data.pdf 5. ^The London Gazette (31 May 1956) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40787/supplement/3103/data.pdf 6. ^ThePeerage.com (entry #316646) http://www.thepeerage.com/p31665.htm#i316646 7 : 1897 births|1958 deaths|Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers|Recipients of the Military Cross|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece |
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