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| birth_name = Alexander Clutterbuck<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|3|27|df=yes}}<br />
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| nationality = British<br />
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| occupation = British diplomat, high commissioner to Canada and India and ambassador to Ireland<br />
| known_for = appointed [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]]<br />
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'''Sir Peter Alexander Clutterbuck''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCMG|MC}} (27 March 1897 – 29 December 1975) was a British diplomat who was high commissioner to Canada and India and ambassador to Ireland.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Alexander's father, Sir [[Peter Clutterbuck]] was an Inspector General of Forests in India and Burma.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19460126/049/0003|title=Malcolm Macdonald-time up|newspaper=Dundee Courier|date=26 January 1946|page=3|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> Peter Alexander Clutterbuck was educated at [[Malvern College]] and [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]. During [[World War I]] he served in the [[Coldstream Guards]] and was awarded the Military Cross and a [[mention in dispatches]]. After the war he entered the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]], at first in the [[General Post Office|Post Office]], transferring to the [[Colonial Office]] in 1922.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32784/pages/151 The London Gazette, 5 January 1923]</ref> He was secretary to the [[Donoughmore Commission]] 1927–28 and a member of the UK delegations to the [[League of Nations]] General Assembly in 1929, 1930 and 1931. He was secretary to the [[Newfoundland Royal Commission]] in 1933. He was [[High Commissioner (Commonwealth)|High Commissioner]] to [[Canada]] 1946–52 and to [[India]] 1952–55. His term in India was cut short by ill health: he was advised not to continue to serve in a tropical climate and was appointed ambassador to the [[Republic of Ireland]] 1955–59.<ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS302339221&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Ambassador in Dublin], ''The Times'', London, 21 April 1955, page vi</ref> Finally he was [[Permanent Under-Secretary]] at the [[Commonwealth Relations Office]] 1959–61.<ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS203644047&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir A. Clutterbuck's New Post], ''The Times'', London, 15 April 1959, page 12</ref><br />
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Clutterbuck was appointed [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] in the [[1943 New Year Honours]],<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35841/pages/5 Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1943]</ref> knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1946<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37407/pages/8 Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1946]</ref> and raised to GCMG in the [[Queen's Birthday Honours]] of 1952.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/39555/supplements/3011 Supplement to the London Gazette, 5 June 1952]</ref><br />
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{{quote|Lord Garner, Clutterbuck's successor at the Commonwealth Relations Office, wrote:<br />
:Clutterbuck's appointment as High Commissioner to [[Ottawa]] in 1946 marked the first occasion when a career officer, assigned to a major [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] post, showed that he could hold his own against any appointments from outside the services. Clutterbuck with his wife created an atmosphere of family feeling amongst the staff which radiated far beyond the confines of [[Earnscliffe]] and they ended as one of the most popular couples in a long line of successful British High Commissioners in Canada. ...}}<br>Above all Alec Clutterbuck was a Christian and a gentleman. Such phrases may sound out of fashion today, but there will be many past and present members of the service who will remember him with gratitude and affection and will recall the guiding lights of his life – loyalty, devotion to duty, integrity and, supremely, the Christian virtues of humility and charity.<ref>Lord Garner, [http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS237076003&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir Alexander Clutterbuck], ''The Times'', London, 3 January 1976, page 14</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
*[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U153282 CLUTTERBUCK, Sir (Peter) Alexander], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012<br />
*[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS204307871&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir Alexander Clutterbuck] (obituary), ''The Times'', London, 31 December 1975, page 12<br />
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