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About Tony Abbott (governor)
- Anthony John "Tony" Abbott, CMG, OBE (born 9 September 1941) is a British diplomat, who served as Governor of Montserrat from 1997 to 2001. Abbott was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire in 1941 and joined the British diplomatic service in 1959.
- He was a vice consul in Iran and Finland in the 1960s, then returned to the UK where he was press officer for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1969 to 1972.
- He then served as a passport officer in Zambia and a consul in Chile, then joined the secretariat of the President of the European Commission.
- In 1981 he was seconded to the British Overseas Trade Board, then in 1983 was First Secretary and later Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Calcutta, India.
- In 1991, he was part of the EC Monitoring Missions in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.After returning the UK again, he worked in the training department of the FCO, then spent four years as consul-general in Perth, Western Australia.
- In 1997, he was sworn in as Governor of Montserrat, as which he served until 2001.
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