Content deleted Content added
Jdforrester (talk | contribs) Add succession boxes. |
per WP:NOPIPE |
||
| (256 intermediate revisions by more than 100 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{short description|British senior diplomat and life peer}}
{{For|the American businessman and politician|Pete Ricketts}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = The Lord Ricketts
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|GCVO}}
| image = Official_portrait_of_Lord_Ricketts_crop_2.jpg
| office = [[British Ambassador to France]]
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
| primeminister = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start = 2012
| term_end = 2016
| predecessor = [[Peter Westmacott]]
| successor = [[Julian King (diplomat)|Julian King]]
| office1 = [[National Security Council (United Kingdom)#National Security Advisor|United Kingdom National Security Advisor]]
| term_start1 = 12 May 2010
| term_end1 = 23 January 2012
| predecessor1 = ''Position established''
| successor1 = [[Kim Darroch]]
| primeminister1 = [[David Cameron]]
| office2 = [[Permanent Secretary]], [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]
| term_start2 = 2006
| term_end2 = 2010
| predecessor2 = [[Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme|Michael Jay]]
| successor2 = [[Simon Fraser (civil servant)|Simon Fraser]]
| primeminister2 = [[Tony Blair]]<br />[[Gordon Brown]]
| office3 = [[Members of the House of Lords|Member]] of the [[House of Lords]]<br />{{small|[[Lord Temporal]]}}
| term_start3 = 17 October 2016<br />{{small|[[Life Peerage]]}}
| term_end3 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|09|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[Warwickshire]], England, UK
| birthname = Peter Forbes Ricketts
| nationality = {{Flagicon|UK}} [[British nationality law|British]]
| spouse = Suzanne Ricketts
| children = 2
| education = [[Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]]
| alma_mater = [[Pembroke College, Oxford]]
| occupation = Diplomat
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
}}
'''Peter Forbes Ricketts, Baron Ricketts''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCMG|GCVO}} (born 30 September 1952)<ref>Foreign Policy in an Era of Globalisation. Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Thursday 15 2009.</ref> is a retired British senior diplomat and a [[life peer]]. He has sat as a [[crossbencher]] in the [[House of Lords]] since 2016.
Ricketts served as chair of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)|Joint Intelligence Committee]] (JIC) under Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]]. He was the UK government's first national security adviser from 2010 from 2012, serving under Prime Minister [[David Cameron]].
== Personal life ==
Ricketts attended [[Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]], [[Sutton Coldfield]], and [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], where he read English Literature. He married Suzanne Horlington; they have two adult children.<ref name=PFRvolgensWhosWho>{{cite book|title= Who's Who 2001|year=2001 |publisher=A&C Black, London |page=1751 |isbn=0-7136-5432-5 |id= Accessed 2 August 2016}}</ref>
==
{{BLP sources section|date=October 2022}}
Ricketts began his career in the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] in 1974 and served as the Assistant Private Secretary to former Foreign Secretary [[Geoffrey Howe]]. He later served as the [[Permanent Representative]] to [[NATO]] in [[Brussels]]. Apart from Brussels, he has been posted to Singapore, Washington DC and Paris.
He served under Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] as Chairman of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)|Joint Intelligence Committee]], leading him to [[List of witnesses of The Iraq Inquiry#November 24|give evidence to]] [[The Iraq Inquiry]] ("The [[Chilcot Report]]") in November 2009.<ref name="BBC I">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8375439.stm|title=Iraq inquiry told of 'clear' threat from Saddam Hussein|date=24 November 2009|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=27 January 2010}}</ref> From 2006 to 2010, Ricketts served under Blair and Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] as the [[Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Permanent Secretary for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office]].
He served under Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] as the UK National Security Adviser from 2010 to 2012. He replaced [[Peter Westmacott]] as [[List of ambassadors from the United Kingdom to France|HM Ambassador to France]] effective January 2012, with [[Kim Darroch]] taking Ricketts's old role as [[National Security Adviser (United Kingdom)|National Security Adviser]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2011/06/senior-diplomatic-appointments-65056|title=Senior Diplomatic Appointments|date=24 June 2011|work=[[10 Downing Street|Number 10]]|accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref>
In January 2016, he stepped down as the UK Ambassador to France and retired from the [[Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service|Diplomatic Service]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-france |title=Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to France |publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office |date=18 December 2015}}</ref>
==Public life==
He was nominated for a life peerage in the [[2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours]] and was created '''Baron Ricketts''', of Shortlands in the County of Kent, on 17 October.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resignation Peerages 2016 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/543973/resignation_peerages_2016.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=61738 |date=21 October 2016 |page=22392 }}</ref> He now sits as a [[crossbencher]].
Between 2016 and January 2022 he was a Strategic Adviser to Lockheed Martin UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ricketts-peter-ambassador-to-france-and-monaco-acoba-recommendation/summary-of-business-appointments-applications-sir-peter-ricketts|title=Summary of business appointments applications - Sir Peter Ricketts}}</ref>
In October 2020 a cross-party group of MPs and peers, backed by Lord Ricketts, planned to take legal action against Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] over his government's refusal to order an inquiry into Russian interference in UK elections. The move followed the publication in July 2020 of the Russia report by parliament's intelligence and security committee (ISC), which found that the government and its intelligence services had failed to investigate Kremlin meddling in the 2016 EU referendum vote. The high court claim named Prime Minister Johnson as defendant.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Harding | first1=Luke | title=Legal action taken against PM over refusal to investigate Kremlin meddling | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/29/legal-action-taken-against-pm-over-refusal-to-investigate-kremlin-meddling | date=29 October 2020 | work=[[The Guardian]] | access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref>
In April 2022, Ricketts called [[Marine Le Pen]]'s proposal for a Franco-British defence cooperation treaty "ignorant and dangerous."<ref>{{cite web | last1=Wintour | first1=Patrick | title=Le Pen's plans for post-Brexit treaty 'ignorant and dangerous' | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/le-pen-plans-post-brexit-treaty-ignorant-dangerous | date=13 April 2022 | work=[[The Guardian]] | access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref>
== Honours ==
He was appointed CMG in the 1999 Birthday Honours, [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 2003,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=57100 |date=31 October 2003 |page=10 |supp=y}}</ref> [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (GCMG) in the 2011 New Year Honours,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |date=31 December 2010 |page=3 |supp=y}}</ref> and [[Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order]] (GCVO) in 2014.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60916 |date=27 June 2014 |page=12742}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Politics of the United Kingdom]]
== References ==
<references />
==External links==
{{Commons category-inline}}
{{s-start}}
{{s-gov}}
{{succession box
| title=Chairman of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)|Joint Intelligence Committee]]
| years=2000–2001
| before=[[Michael Pakenham]]
}}
{{succession box
| title=Director-General, Political of the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]
| years=2001–2003
| before=[[Emyr Jones Parry]]
}}
{{s-dip}}
{{succession box
|
| after=[[Stewart Eldon]]
}}
{{s-gov}}
{{succession box
| before=[[Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme|Michael Jay]]
| after=[[Simon Fraser (civil servant)|Simon Fraser]]
}}
{{
| title=[[National Security Council (United Kingdom)|Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser]]
| years=2010–2012
| before=New position
| after=[[Kim Darroch]]
}}
{{s-dip}}
{{succession box
| title=[[British Ambassador to France]]
| years=2012–2016
| before=[[Peter Westmacott]]
| after=[[Julian King (diplomat)|Julian King]]
}}
{{s-prec|uk}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Nick Macpherson|The Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom|Gentlemen]]'''<br />''Baron Ricketts'' '''}}
{{s-fol|after=[[Edward Llewellyn, Baron Llewellyn of Steep|The Lord Llewellyn of Steep]]}}
{{s-end}}
{{NSA}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ricketts, Peter}}
[[Category:1952 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:
[[Category:Diplomatic peers]]
[[Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II]]
[[Category:People educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]]
[[Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Members of HM Diplomatic Service]]
[[Category:Private secretaries in the British Civil Service]]
[[Category:Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs]]
[[Category:Chairs of the Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)]]
[[Category:Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom to NATO]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France]]
[[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]]
[[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order]]
[[Category:20th-century British diplomats]]
[[Category:National Security Advisers (United Kingdom)]]
| |||