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General First nameSir Alan Stewart
LastnameWatt CBE
GenderMale
CountryAustralia
Date of birth1901-04-13
Place of birthCroydon, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death1988-09-18
Place of deathAranda, Australian Capital Territory, Australia


About

Born of Scottish heritage, Watt attended Sydney Boys? High School. A graduate of the Universities of Sydney and Oxford, he was a New South Wales Rhodes Scholar for 1921. Watt first joined the Commonwealth Public Service in the Department of External Affairs, in 1937. He served in the United States during World War II and was one of the Australian delegates at the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
In 1947, Watt became the Australian minister to the Soviet Union and in 1948 the first Australian Ambassador in Moscow. In 1950 he returned to Australia and was appointed Secretary to the Department and was instrumental in negotiation of the ANZUS and SEATO treaties. He then served as High Commissioner to both Singapore and Southeast Asia (1954?1956), Ambassador to Japan (1956?1960) and Ambassador to Germany (1960?1962). Leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1962, he became a Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University, and Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (1963?1969).

He wrote a number of books and articles in retirement, including ?The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy 1938?1965? (1967, Cambridge University Press, 67-10782), ?Vietnam - An Australian Analysis? (1968, Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire for Australian Institute of International Relations), and ?Australian Diplomat - Memoirs of Sir Alan Watt? (1972, Angus and Robertson, ISBN 0-207-12354-3).
Alan Watt was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1952, and as a Knight Bachelor in June 1954. In 2011, a street in the Canberra suburb of Casey was named Alan Watt Crescent in Watt?s honour.

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Archive statistics Career1920 - 1924
Tournament wins0
Matches8
Match wins4


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1924 Tasmanian Championships - 1921 New Zealand Championships - 1920 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1920