John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College Toronto at Eton at the University of Strasbourg and after a spell of National Service in the Navy at New College Oxford where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service where he remained for twelve years serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write.