Malcolm Lyon (mai ba da izini)

Malcolm Elliott Lyon OBE (18 ga Satumba 1930 - Satumba 2007) ya kasance ma'aikacin gwamnati na Australiya kuma diflomasiyya.

An haife shi a London a 1930, Lyon ya koma Kudancin Australia a 1940 lokacin da shi da mahaifiyarsa suka yi hijira daga Ingila. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide, kafin ya sauya a matsayin mai shiga Kwalejin Geelong don karatunsa daga baya. Ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko na Arts daga Jami'ar Adelaide, inda yake a Kwalejin St. Mark. A tsakiyar digiri ya koma Faransa don yin karatu na shekara guda a Cibiyar Britannia da ke Paris. Da ya dawo Ostiraliya, ya yi tafiya tare da mahaifiyarsa da abokai biyu a ƙasa daga London zuwa Mombasa kafin ya shiga jirgi. A cikin tafiya sun haɗu da zakuna da crocodiles kuma dole ne su tono kansu daga yashi fiye da sau goma sha biyu, kuma su sadu da Mutanen Tuareg. Lyon ya bayyana tsawon kilomita 500 a kudancin Tamanrasset a matsayin mafi munin ɓangaren tafiyar. 

Ya shiga Ma'aikatar Harkokin Waje a matsayin cadet a shekara ta 1954,  aikinsa na farko ya kasance a Jamus, Indiya, Sweden, New Zealand da Singapore.  Yayinda yake matashi, Lyon ya auri Robin Marjorie Carne a St John the Baptist Church, Reid a ranar 3 ga Disamba 1955.

A cikin shekarun 1970s, Lyon ya shafe shekara guda a Papua New Guinea a matsayin mataimakin shugaban manufa a Babban Kwamitin. Ya kasance babban dan wasa wanda ya tattauna Yarjejeniyar Torres Strait ta 1978,  wanda ya bayyana iyakar tsakanin Papua New Guinea da Australia. Don wannan aikin ne a cikin girmamawar ranar haihuwar 1979 aka sanya shi Jami'in Order of the British Empire. 

Daga 1979 zuwa 1981, Lyon ta kasance shugaban yankin Kudu maso Gabashin Asiya da Kudancin Pacific a Ma'aikatar Harkokin Waje.[1] Ya kasance Jakadan Australiya a Afirka ta Kudu daga 1981 zuwa 1984, a lokacin wariyar launin fata. Sakamakon bai gamsu ba - Gwamnatin Australiya ta yi adawa da wariyar launin fata kuma Lyon dole ne ya ba da wannan batu ga jami'an Afirka ta Kudu ci gaba, yana sa diflomasiyya ta yi wuya.[2] Matarsa Robin ta mutu a lokacin aikawa, bayan gajeren rashin lafiya da ba zato ba tsammani.[3] Zuwa ƙarshen aikinsa a Afirka ta Kudu, Lyon ya sake yin aure, ga Diana Cole, tare da ita ya kwashe sauran rayuwarsa.[4]

Da ya yi ritaya a shekara ta 1987, Lyon ya sha wahala daga matsalolin zuciya kuma yana da cutar Alzheimer a rayuwarsa ta baya. Ya mutu a watan Satumbar 2007, yana da shekaru 77. 

 Manazarta 
"Across The Sahara On The Way To Australia". The West Australian. 21 March 1953. p. 20.
Rukuni:Matattun 2007
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1930