Stewart Crawford

Sir Robert Stewart Crawford GCMG CVO (27 August 1913 - 11 October 2002, Oxfordshire), known as Stewart Crawford, was a British diplomat.

Crawford was the son of Sir William Crawford, founder of the advertising agency W. S. Crawford Ltd.

After five years at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, he spent a term at University of Tübingen before going up to Oriel College, Oxford, where he took a First in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

• 1936: Joined the Air Ministry as a civil servant
• 1940-1946: Private Secretary to the Chief of Air Staff
• 1946-1947: Assistant Secretary, Control Office for Germany and Austria
• 1954-1956: Counsellor, British Embassy, Norway
• 1957-1959: Counsellor, later Minister, British Embassy, Baghdad
• 1959-1960: Deputy UK Delegate to Organization for European Economic Co-operation
• 1961-1965: Assistant Under Secretary, Foreign Office
• 1966-1970: UK Political Resident, Persian Gulf
• 1970-1973: Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• 1973-1974: Chairman, Committee on Broadcasting Coverage
• 1976-1984: Member of BBC General Advisory Council

Crawford married Mary Katharine Corbett, daughter of Eric Corbett. They had four sons and one daughter.

• Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1951
• Commander, Royal Victorian Order, 1955
• Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1966
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1973

• Who's Who 2003 (A. & C. Black, London, 2003) page 489
• Obituary: Sir Stewart Crawford by Denis Wright in The Independent, 1 November 2002

• Telegraph obituary