What is Antony Acland?
[[File:Garter robe Sir Antony Acland.jpg|right|200px]] [[Sir]] '''Antony Arthur Acland''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KG|GCMG|GCVO}} (12 March 1930 &ndash; 8 September 2021) was a British diplomat. He was the Provost of [[Eton College]]. Acland was the [[List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States|U.K. Ambassador]] to the [[United States]] from 1986 to 1991 during the [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[John Major]] ministries.<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U4968 ACLAND, Sir Antony (Arthur)], ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)</ref> Acland died on 8 September 2021 at the age of 91.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/09/sir-antony-acland-foreign-office-permanent-under-secretary-ambassador/ Sir Antony Acland, Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary and Ambassador to the US who became a favourite of Mrs Thatcher – obituary]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%2057 Sir Antony Acland interviewed by Liz Cox on Monday 23 April 2001] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195438/http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/DOHP%2057 |date=3 March 2016 }}, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP), Churchill College, Cambridge {{DEFAULTSORT:Acland, Antony}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}