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Kenneth Crook

British diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6390007 ↗
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Kenneth Roy Crook CMG (30 July 1920 – 24 July 2012) was a British diplomat.

He was Governor of the Cayman Islands from 1971 to 1974, and Ambassador to Afghanistan from 1976 to 1979.

He was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kenneth Crook” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.