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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because the article provides criteria for his importance: he was knighted in 1986 (which meets WP:NAWARD) and received another honours; because he has an entry in the UK version of Who's Who (published by Oxford University Press) and because he was an ambassador. — Noswall59 ( talk) 18:23, 30 June 2019 (UTC) reply

He was also afforded a short obituary in The Times of London: [1] (it is paywalled). — Noswall59 ( talk) 18:24, 30 June 2019 (UTC). reply