Francis Cornish

Francis Cornish CMG, LVO was born in Britain in 1942. He was educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

He was commissioned into the army in 1962, joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1968.

In 1970, he was posted to Kuala Lumpur, for commercial and language training, before moving to Jakarta in 1971 as Third Secretary, Commercial.

In 1973, he was posted to the FCO in London as First Secretary with specific responsibility for Cyprus issues.

He was then posted to Bonn in 1976 to cover the European Community's political and economic affairs.

In 1980 he was seconded as assistant private secretary to The Prince of Wales.