Winfred Peppinck
Winfred Marcel Peppinck | |
|---|---|
| Australian High Commissioner to Barbados | |
| In office 2001[1] – May 2004[2] | |
| Prime Minister | John Howard |
| Succeeded by | John Michell (to Port of Spain) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 January 1946 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Died | 1 October 2020 (aged 74) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
| Website | Australia in Trinidad and Tobago |
Winfred Marcel Peppinck (2 January 1946 – 1 October 2020) was an Australian author and former diplomat who served as the Australian Ambassador to the Caribbean at the former High Commission in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Biography
He was born in The Hague, in the Netherlands on 2 January 1946. His family Annette (mum) Waldemar (dad) and Wido (younger brother) moved to the Dutch East Indies and in 1951 they emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. He received a degree in politics then worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic trainee. He was assigned to Brazil, South Africa, Uganda and Indonesia. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Ambassador to the Caribbean.[3]
From 2004 he served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa.[4][5] After the start of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, Peppinck wrote a number of articles in the pro-government Gulf Daily News, defending the Bahrain government's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.[6][7]
Peppinck died on 1 October 2020.[8]
References
- ^ announcement of the Governor General of Australia , 14 March 2001
- ^ Australia's diplomat arrives: John Michell, www.newsday.co.tt
- ^ "Winfred Peppinck". Olympia Publishers. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Insights into life of a globetrotter". Gulf Daily News. 4 January 2009.
- ^ "Wilfred Peppinck - The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados". m-ybooks.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Peppinck, Winfred (10 April 2011). "Let's be media-savvy..." Gulf Daily News.
- ^ Peppinck, Winfred (16 May 2011). "Justice must be seen to reign supreme..." Gulf Daily News.
- ^ "Death Notice: Winfred Peppinck". The Canberra Times. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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