Adrian Fortescue
| Adrian Fortescue (Diplomat, spook?) | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 1941 Hong Kong |
| Died | August 2004 London |
| Nationality | UK |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University, London School of Economics |
| Parents | Tim Fortescue |
Spooky UK panelist at the 2002 Bilderberg. Son-in-law of Winston Churchill. Died in 2004 | |
Sir Adrian John Fortescue was a panelist for the discussion about Have Civil Liberties Been Unnecessarily Eroded? at the 2002 Bilderberg.[1]
Background
Adrian Fortescue, born to Tim Fortescue, a UK colonial administrator,[2] "spent the first few years of his life in a Japanese internment camp. Returning to England after the war, he attended Uppingham, an exclusive independent school in Leicestershire, before going on to earn a classics degree at Cambridge University."[3] He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill.[3]
Career
In 1964 Adrian Fortescue started his career as a UK diplomat. "But he seemed to find greater fulfilment when he transferred, via a tour of duty in the late 1980s as chef de cabinet to a British European Commissioner, Lord Cockfield, to the permanent service of the European Commission. This culminated, after he had left Lord Cockfield’s office, in four years as the Commission’s Director-General for Justice and Home Affairs."[4]
In 1972 when, on secondment from the UK civil service, he was in the cabinet of Commission Vice-President Sir Christopher Soames.[3]
Fortescue was a Director General of Justice and Internal Affairs of the European Commission.