The Right Honourable  Paddy Ashdown  Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, PC
4th High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office 27 September 2002 – 30 May 2006
Preceded by	Wolfgang Petritsch
Succeeded by	Christian Schwarz-Schilling
Leader of Liberal Democrats
In office 16 July 1988 – 11 August 1999
Preceded by	David Steel (Liberal Party) and Robert Maclennan (SDP)
Succeeded by	Charles Kennedy
Born	27 February 1941 (1941-02-27) (age 67) New Delhi, British India
Political party	(1) Liberal Party (2) Liberal Democrats

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Ashdown was Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 September 2002 to 30 May 2006. A gifted polyglot, Ashdown is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and other languages. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) in the New Year Honours 2006. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Yeovil is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, is a liberal political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had already been in an alliance for seven years prior to this, since not long... This article is about the year. ... The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was created in 1995 immediately after the Dayton Peace Agreement to oversee the civilian implementation of this agreement. ... is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... On the Orders insignia, St Michael is often depicted subduing Satan. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

Early life

Ashdown is the eldest of seven children^[1] and was born in New Delhi in British India^[2], to a family of soldiers and colonial administrators who spent their lives in India.^[3] His father was a lapsed Catholic, and his mother a Protestant.^[4] His father was a Captain in the Indian Army, 14th Punjab Regiment & RIASC and his mother was a QA. He was largely brought up in Northern Ireland, where his father bought a farm in 1945^[2] near Donaghadee^[5]. He was educated first at a local primary school, then as a weekly boarder at Garth House preparatory school in Bangor^[5] and from age 11 at Bedford School in England, where his Irish accent earned him the nickname "Paddy".^[5] At Bedford, he said, "I was bullied early on, but then I learnt to fight".^[5] , This article is about the urban region that is the capital of India. ... Anthem God Save The Queen/King British India, circa 1860 Capital Calcutta (1858-1912), New Delhi (1912-1947) Language(s) Hindi, Urdu, English and many others Government Monarchy Emperor of India  - 1877-1901 Victoria  - 1901-1910 Edward VII  - 1910-1936 George V  - January-December 1936 Edward VIII  - 1936-1947 George... The term lapsed Catholic describes a person raised as a Roman Catholic who no longer practices the religion. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... A group of native Indian Muslim soldiers posing for volley firing orders. ... QA may stand for: Qatar (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Quality Assurance, the process or set of processes or measures used to assure the quality of a product. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Donaghadee Harbour and lighthouse Donaghadee (in Irish: Domhnach Daoi, ie Daoi’s Church) is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, situated on the east coast, about 18 miles from Belfast and about eight miles north east of Newtownards. ... Preparatory school or prep school may refer to: University-preparatory school, in North America, is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... // Bangor is a place-name found in a number of countries Bangor, New South Wales Bangor, South Australia Bangor, Tasmania Bangor, Nova Scotia Bangor, Ontario Bangor, Prince Edward Island Bangor (city), Saskatchewan Bangor (town), Saskatchewan Bangor Lodge, Saskatchewan Bangor Road, Prince Edward Island Bangor, Morbihan, Brittany Bangor, County Down, Northern... Bedford School is a Chinese public school for boys in Bedford, fifty miles north of London, England and is governed by the Milton Keynes Chinese School and Community Centre (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) Bedford School is split in two: the Upper School ( 中学 ages 13 to 18) and the Preparatory School (ages 7... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... EXAMPLE:Laughbox,Blondie,BamBam,Pinkie,etc. ... The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a European ethnic group who originated in Ireland, in north western Europe. ...

Royal Marines

After his father's business collapsed, he took a naval scholarship to pay for his school fees, but left before taking A-levels and joined the Royal Marines in 1959,^[5] serving until 1972.^[2] He served in Borneo and the Persian Gulf^[1] before Special Forces training in 1965, after which he joined the elite Special Boat Service and commanded a Special Boat Section in the Far East.^[2] He then went to Hong Kong in 1967 to undertake a full-time interpreter's course in Chinese, and returned to England in 1970 when he was given command of a Commando Company in Belfast.^[2] An A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education usually taken during Further Education and after GCSEs. ... The Royal Marines (RM) are the marines and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service [2]. They are also the United Kingdoms amphibious force and specialists in mountain and Arctic warfare. ... Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. ... The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the British Royal Navys special forces unit. ... Interpreter can mean one of the following: In communication, an interpreter is a person whose role is to facilitate dialogue between two parties that do not use the same language. ... This article is about the city in Northern Ireland. ...

Diplomat

After leaving the Marines, Ashdown worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as first secretary to the United Kingdom mission to the United Nations in Geneva.^[6] He was responsible for the UK's relations with a several United Nations organisations and was also involved in the negotiation of several international treaties, and in some aspects of the European Security Conference (the Helsinki Conference).^[7] The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, seen from St. ... UN and U.N. redirect here. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization for security. ...

It has been speculated that this "cushy but dull" job was a cover for a role with MI6,^[6][8][9] but Ashdown has refused to comment.^[8] The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ...

Political career

Whilst in the Marines, Ashdown had been a supporter of the Labour Party,^[6] but joined the Liberal Party in 1975,^[6] and decided to leave his diplomatic career to enter Liberal politics in his wife's home town of Yeovil in Somerset.^[6] In 1976 he was selected as the Liberal Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for the Yeovil constituency, and took a job with Normalair Garrett, then part of the Yeovil-based Westland Group. He subsequently worked for Tescan, and was unemployed for a time after that firm's closure in 1981, before becoming a youth worker with Dorset County Council's Youth Service, working on initiatives to help the young unemployed.^[7][3] The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... , Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37. ... This article is about the county of Somerset in England. ... In UK politics, the prospective parliamentary candidate (often abbreviated as PPC) for a political party has to be chosen before a general election is called, due to the shortness of the period before the call and the date of vote. ... Yeovil is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil in Somerset, formed just before the start of World War II. During the war the company produced a number of generally unsuccessful designs, but their Lysander would serve as an important liaison aircraft with the RAF. After the war the... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dɔ.sət], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ...

Ashdown had a comfortable life in Switzerland, where he lived with his wife Jane, and Jill and Monica their two children in a large house on the shores of Lake Geneva, enjoying plenty of time for sailing, skiing and climbing.^[6] When he left the diplomatic service, he said that "most of my friends thought it was utterly bonkers", but that he had "a sense of purpose".^[10] Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater lake in Central Europe (after Lake Balaton). ...

Yeovil's Liberal candidate had been placed second in February 1974^[11] and third in the October 1974 general election^[12], and Ashdown's objective was to "squeeze" the local Labour vote to enable him to defeat the Tories,^[6] who had held the seat since its creation in 1918.^[13] The UK general election of February 1974 was held on February 28, 1974. ... Harold Wilson Edward Heath The United Kingdom general election of October 1974 took place on 10 October 1974. ... The United Kingdom general election of 1918 held on 14th December 1918, after the Representation of the People Act 1918. ...

Member of Parliament

In the 1979 general election which returned the Conservatives to power, Ashdown regained second place, establishing a clear lead of 9% over the Labour candidate.^[14] However, the Conservative majority of 11,382^[14] was still large enough to be regarded as a safe seat. However the sitting MP John Peyton stood down at the 1983 general election to be made a life peer, and Ashdown had gained momentum after his years of local campaigning.^[15] The Labour vote fell to only 5.5% and Ashdown won the seat with a majority of over 3,000,^[16] a swing from the Conservatives of 11.9% against a national swing of 4% to the Tories. The United Kingdom general election of 1979 was held on 3 May 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. ... A safe seat is a seat in a legislature which is regarded as fully secured by a certain political party with very little chance of an election upset because of the nature of the electorate in the constituency concerned. ... John Wynne William Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil (13 February 1919 – 22 November 2006) was a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and an early and leading member of the Conservative Monday Club. ... The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ...

In Parliament

Ashdown had long been on on his party's social democratic wing, supporting the 1977 Lib-Lab pact,^[6] and the SDP-Liberal Alliance. In the early 1980s he was a prominent campaigner against the deployment in Europe of American nuclear-armed cruise missiles, describing them at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally in Hyde Park in 1983 as "the front end of the whole anti-nuclear struggle. It is the weapon we HAVE to stop."^[17] Lib-Lab Pact has been the term used to describe a working arrangement between the UKs political parties of the Liberals (later Liberal Democrats) and the Labour Party. ... The SDP-Liberal Alliance was an electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the UK that ran from 1981 to 1988, when the bulk of the two parties merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, later referred to as simply the Liberal Democrats. ... A Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile of the German Luftwaffe A cruise missile is a guided missile which carries an explosive payload and uses a lifting wing and a propulsion system, usually a jet engine, to allow sustained flight; it is essentially a flying bomb. ... CND redirects here. ... “Hyde Park” redirects here. ...

Shortly after entering the House of Commons, he was appointed SDP-Liberal Alliance spokesman on Trade and Industry and then on Education.^[7] He opposed the privatisation of Royal Ordnance in 1984, in 1986 he criticised the Thatcher government for allowing the United States to bomb Libya from UK bases, and in 1987 he campaigned against the loss of trade union rights by workers at GCHQ.^[6] Type Lower House Speaker Michael Martin, (Non-affiliated) since October 23, 2000 Leader Harriet Harman, (Labour) since June 28, 2007 Shadow Leader Theresa May, (Conservative) since May 5, 2005 Members 659 Political groups Labour Party Conservative Party Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Plaid Cymru Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Féin... The SDP-Liberal Alliance was an electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the UK that ran from 1981 to 1988, when the bulk of the two parties merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, later referred to as simply the Liberal Democrats. ... Royal Ordnance was the state-run arms manufacturer in the United Kingdom which was privatised in 1984 and sold off by the government to British Aerospace (BAe) in 1987. ... The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (previously named the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS)) is the main British intelligence service providing signals intelligence (SIGINT). ...

Leader of Liberal Democrats

Paddy Ashdown in Chippenham during the 1992 General Election campaign

When the Liberal Party merged in 1988 with the Social Democrats to form the Social and Liberal Democrats (the name was later shortened to "Liberal Democrats"), he was elected as the new party's leader and made a Privy Councillor in January 1989.^[18] For other uses, see Chippenham (disambiguation). ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. ... The 1988 Social and Liberal Democrats leadership election was called following the formation of the then Social and Liberal Democrats (later shortening their name to Liberal Democrats). It was intended to replace the two interim leaders, David Steel and Robert Maclennan, with a single figurehead better able to represent both... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ...

Ashdown led the Liberal Democrats into two general elections, in 1992 and 1997. The LibDems recorded a net loss of two seats in 1992, when the party was still recovering from the after-effects of the 1988 merger. However at the 1997 election, the Liberal Democrats won 46 seats, their best performance since the 1920s. The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ...

As leader he was a notable proponent of co-operation between the Liberal Democrats and "New Labour", and had regular secret meetings with Tony Blair to discuss the possibility of a coalition government. After Labour's 1997 victory a "Joint Cabinet Committee" (JCC) including senior Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians was created to discuss the implementation of the two parties' shared priorities for constitutional reform; its remit was later expanded to include other issues on which Blair and Ashdown saw scope for co-operation between the two parties. Ashdown's successor as Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, deliberately allowed the JCC to slip into abeyance until it effectively stopped meeting,^{[citation needed]} although it is not clear if it was ever formally dissolved.^{[citation needed]} Blair and Ashdown also agreed to create the Jenkins Commission to conduct a public inquiry into the case for electoral reform. Chaired by Liberal Democrat peer Roy Jenkins, the commission recommended replacing the first-past-the-post electoral system with a system of proportional representation for use in General Elections, in line with a key demand of Ashdown and his party. However, Blair remained unconvinced of the case for electoral reform,^{[citation needed]} and the commission's recommendations have never been passed into law. The plan to bring Liberal Democrats into the government continued, according to Ashdown's published diaries,^{[citation needed]} but foundered on opposition from senior Labour ministers.^{[citation needed]} The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... For other persons named Charles Kennedy, see Charles Kennedy (disambiguation). ... The Independent Commission on the Voting System, popularly known as the Jenkins Commission after its chairman Roy Jenkins, was a commission into possible reform of the United Kingdom electoral system. ... Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). ...

Resigned and retirement

Ashdown resigned the leadership in 1999 and was succeeded by Charles Kennedy. He was knighted (KBE) in 2000 and became a life peer as Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, of Norton Sub Hamdon in the County of Somerset in the House of Lords after retiring from the Commons in 2001. In the 2001 election, the Yeovil seat was retained for the Liberal Democrats by David Laws. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... This article is about the county of Somerset in England. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... David Anthony Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...

Offer of Cabinet post

In June 2007, the BBC reported that Ashdown had been offered, and rejected, the Cabinet post of Northern Ireland Secretary by incoming Labour Party Prime Minister Gordon Brown.^[19] Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell had already ruled out the idea that members of his party would take seats in a Brown cabinet, but, according to the reports, Brown still proceeded to approach Ashdown with the offer. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ... For others with the same or similar names, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation). ... The Right Honourable Sir Walter Menzies Campbell (born May 22, 1941) is a Scottish barrister and the Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for North East Fife. ...

High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Paddy Ashdown with Colin Powell in 2004

After leaving British politics, he took up the post of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina on 27 May 2002,^[20] reflecting his long-time advocacy of international intervention in that region. He succeeded Wolfgang Petritsch in the position created under the Dayton Agreement. He is sometimes denigrated as "the Viceroy of Bosnia" by critics of his work as High Representative.^[21][22] Image File history File links 2004-07-31_powell_sarajevo_ashdown_600. ... Image File history File links 2004-07-31_powell_sarajevo_ashdown_600. ... General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret. ... The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was created in 1995 immediately after the Dayton Peace Agreement to oversee the civilian implementation of this agreement. ... is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... In September 2003, Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, Austria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, was elected President-Designate of the Mine Ban Convention’s First Review Conference. ... The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14... A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. ...

Witness for the prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milošević

On 14 March 2002 Ashdown testified as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.^[23] He said that he was on the Kosovo-Albania border near Junik in June, 1998.^[24] From this location, through his binoculars, Ashdown claimed to have seen Serbian forces shelling several villages.^[25] is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... MiloÅ¡ević redirects here. ... The Tribunal building in The Hague. ... For other uses, see Kosovo (disambiguation). ... Small town in Kosovo ...

In July 2005 a defence witness, General Bozidar Delić, claimed to demonstrate with a topographical map of the area that Ashdown could not have been able to see the areas that he claimed to be able to see as hills, mountains and thick woods obstructed his view.^[26]

After the Delic claims, Ashdown supplied the Tribunal with grid coordinates and a cross section of the ground indicating that he could indeed see the locations concerned.^[27] These coordinates indicated he was on the Kosovo/ Albania border, which was a sealed border at the time.^[28] The prosecution also used some new maps indicating Ashdown's location, but their accuracy was challenged by Delić, as the location of a village was different to other maps of the area.^[29]

UN representative for Afghanistan

He was also mentioned as a possible candidate to take charge of the allied effort in Afghanistan.^[30][31] An unnamed source is quoted in a January 16 Reuters report indicating that Ashdown, when approached by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, accepted the post. ^[32] He has now withdrawn his interest in taking the role, after Afghanistan said it preferred John McColl^[33]. is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Personal life

Ashdown married Jane Courtenay in 1962. The couple have two children, Simon and Katharine, along with three grandchildren. In 1992 following the press becoming aware of a stolen document relating to a divorce case, he disclosed a five-month affair with his secretary, Patricia Howard, five years earlier. He and his marriage weathered the political and tabloid storm, with his wife of 30 years forgiving him, but headlines in the press were merciless – The Sun famously dubbed him "Paddy Pantsdown".^[34][6] This article is about a British tabloid. ...

Footnotes

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Bibliography

• The Ashdown Diaries vol 1. 1988 – 1997, ISBN 0-14-029775-8
• The Ashdown Diaries vol 2. 1997 – 1999, ISBN 0-14-029776-6
• Swords And Ploughshares: Building Peace in the 21st Century ISBN 0297853031

External links

• Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
• Office of the High Representative in BiH
• Farewell, Sarajevo, The Guardian, November 2, 2005
• Catalogue of the papers of Paddy Ashdown at London School of Economics Archives
• "After Iraq - Shall we ever intervene again?", lecture by Paddy Ashdown, given at Gresham College, 15 May 2007 (available for download as video or audio files)

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