Ivor F. Porter CMG, OBE (b. 1913) is a former British Ambassador and author. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located
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Education
Porter was brought up in the Lake District and educated at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School and Leeds University. The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. Parkview Community College of Technology is the largest Secondary school in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, accounting The University of Leeds is a major teaching and research University in Leeds, West Yorkshire; one of the largest in the United Kingdom with
Special Operations Executive
In 1939 Porter was sent to Bucharest, Romania on an academic post with the British Council but was quickly transferred to the Legation, and remained there until it was withdrawn from Romania on 12 February 1941. Bucharest ( Romanian: Bucureşti) is the Capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania The British Council is a Public Body of the United Kingdom Government which specialises in educational and development opportunities On 1 March 1941 Porter was recruited by SOE, and was one of a covert three-man mission that was parachuted into Romania in December 1943 to instigate resistance against the Nazis at "any cost" (Operation Autonomous). The Special Operations Executive ( SOE) (sometimes referred to as "the Baker Street Irregulars " after Sherlock Holmes ' fictional group of helpers Operation Autonomous was a clandestine operation carried out on the territory of Romania by the Allied Secret Services during the Second World War, in 1943 The SOE agents were captured and held as prisoners-of-war until, on 23 August 1944, King Michael of Romania carried out his anti-German coup d'état. King Michael's Coup refers to the Coup d'etat led by King Michael of Romania in 1944 against the pro- Nazi Romanian faction of Porter met King Michael that night and remained in the country during the King's desperate efforts to prevent Soviet domination.
Foreign Office
He joined the F. O. in May 1946 and has served in London, Washington, the U. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. K. delegation to NATO, Cyprus, as U. Cyprus (Κύπρος transliterated: Kýpros,; Kıbrıs officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía K. representative to the Council of Europe, and India. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country He was ambassador in Senegal and to the Arms Control Committee in Geneva.
Author
Porter has written two books since retirement: Operation Autonomous: With SOE in Wartime Romania and Michael of Romania: The King and the Country. Operation Autonomous was a clandestine operation carried out on the territory of Romania by the Allied Secret Services during the Second World War, in 1943 [1] Operation Autonomous was short listed for the Time-Life/Pen Award for non-fiction. [7] In 2005 he was made Commander of the Romanian order of "Meritul Cultural".
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