Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, GCB GCMG FRS DL, was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956.
Makins in 1952
Makins (left) with the Soviet ambassador Zarubin and U.S. diplomat Wadsworth in Washington in 1956
Alice Davis with three of her six children in 1952: Cynthia (17 years old, right, one of twins), Patricia (6 years old, left), and Dwight (18 months).
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The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christ Church, Ox
Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield
…1956 to 1960 and as Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority from 1960 to 1964. Makins was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the University of Reading in 1969, and retained this position until 1992. On 30 April 1934, in an Episcopal ceremony in Tallahassee, Florida, he married an American, Alice Brooks…
The University of Reading War Memorial clock tower, designed by Herbert Maryon, on the London Road Campus
Students take notes at the museum in the Faculty of Science at Reading University in 1945
The ICMA Centre
Sir David Bell faces student protests