{"id":11157,"date":"2017-02-20T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11157"},"modified":"2017-10-31T14:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:56:27","slug":"harriman-leslie-orisevveyinmi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/harriman-leslie-orisevveyinmi\/","title":{"rendered":"HARRIMAN, Leslie Oritseweyinmi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retired diplomat, born July 9, 1930, Warri, Bendel State; married Clara Edewon, one son, three daughters; Education: Government School, Benin City, Edo College, Benin City, Govern ment College, Ibadan, University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, Pembroke Col lege, University of Oxford, England, Imperial Defence College, London; Manager, Unilever, Lagos, 1955-58; Assistant Secretary, Nigerian Commission, London, 1957-58; Senior Secretary, Federal Ministry of External Af fairs, 1959; reposted to Kenya 1960; Counsellor and acting High Commissioner to Ghana, 1961-63; Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, 1965-66; appointed High Commissioner to Uganda, 1966-69 and (con-currently) to Kenya, 1966-70; appointed ambassador to France, 1970-75; ambasador to UN, 1975-79; National Honour: awarded the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFC), 1981; Hobby: travell ing; Address: c\/o Harriman and Company, 4\/6, Oil Mill Street, PO Box 3633, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11157","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}