David Tatham
David Everard Tatham is a former British diplomat.
Tatham joined the Foreign Office in 1960. He served as Third Secretary in New York in 1962. In 1963, he was appointed vice-consul in Milan. In 1966, he served as a Second Secretary at the Foreign Office. In 1967, he attended MECAS. From 1969, he was Second, and later First, Secretary at Jeddah. He returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1971. From 1974, he served in Muscat as First Secretary (HCO). he returned to the FCO as a First Secretary in 1977. In 1980, he was posted to the NATO Defence College. In 1981, he was appointed Counsellor in Dublin. Lobster 19 claimed, citing Republican News, that Tatham was an MI6 officer and Chief of Station at this time.[1]
Irish state papers released in 2011, detail contacts between Tatham and Frank Murray of the Department of the Taoiseach. On 29 April 1981, during the 1981 hunger strike, he passed on an internal British Embassy memo reporting a conversation between papal envoy Fr John Magee and secretary of state for Northern Ireland Humphrey Atkins.[2]
Tatham was head of the Foreign Office Falkland Islands Department in London before serving as Governor of the islands between 1992 and 1995.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, First supplement to A Who's Who of the British Secret State, Lobster 19.
- ↑ Deaglan De Breadun, Sands rejected pope's order to come off hunger strike, Irish Times, 31 December 2011.
- ↑ New Falklands Association chairman pays tribute to David Tatham and anticipates “a very busy 2012”, MercoPress, 21 December 2011.
