Alick Downer

Sir Alexander Russell "Alick" Downer KBE (7 ga Afrilu 1910 - 30 ga Maris 1981) ɗan siyasa ne kuma jami'in diflomasiyya na Australiya. Ya kasance memba na Majalisar Wakilai tsakanin 1949 da 1963, yana wakiltar Jam'iyyar Liberal, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Ministan Shige da Fice a Gwamnatin Menzies. Daga baya ya zama Babban Kwamishinan Burtaniya daga 1963 zuwa 1972.

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An haifi Downer a Adelaide a matsayin memba na dangin Downer masu tasiri. Mahaifinsa, Sir John Downer, ya kasance Firayim Ministan Kudancin Australia kuma memba na Majalisar Dattawan Australiya kuma yana da shekaru 66 a lokacin haihuwarsa; ya mutu lokacin da Alick yana da shekaru biyar.  Mahaifiyarsa ita ce Una Russell, 'yar Henry Chamberlain Russell, wanda ya sake aure lokacin da Alick ke da shekaru takwas, ga D'Arcy Wentworth Addison.Downer, Alick (2012). The Downers of South Australia, p. 114. Wakefield Press, Adelaide.  Ɗan Sir Alick, Alexander Downer, shi ma ɗan siyasa ne mai sassaucin ra'ayi, ya kasance Shugaban 'Yan adawa a 1994-95 kuma Ministan Harkokin Waje na Australiya daga 1996 zuwa 2007, kafin ya zama Babban Kwamishinan Australiya a Burtaniya daga 2014 zuwa 2018, shekaru biyar bayan Alick ya riƙe wannan matsayin.

Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Geelong da kuma Jami'ar Oxford, inda ya kammala karatunsa a fannin tattalin arziki da kimiyyar siyasa. Shi ne uban Charles Spencer, Earl Spencer na 9, ɗan'uwan Diana, Gimbiya Wales. Uwar Earl ita ce Sarauniya Elizabeth ta Biyu.

Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Oxford a shekarar 1932, ya karanci shari'a a Landan, kuma a shekarar 1934 aka shigar da shi mashaya a Inner Temple. Da ya dawo Adelaide, ya shiga lauyoyin Kudancin Australia a shekarar 1935. Ya yi aiki a matsayin lauya har sai da ya shiga rundunar sojin Australiya a shekarar 1940. Ya yi aiki a Malaya kuma ya kasance fursunan yaƙi na tsawon shekaru uku, [1] inda ya kafa ɗakin karatu na sansanin kuma ya ba da darussa ga sauran fursunoni. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa sajenti saboda waɗannan ƙoƙarin, amma ba a amince da ƙarin girma ba bayan an sake shi.[2]

An buga littafinsa Firayim Minista shida ( Robert Menzies, John Gorton, Harold Holt, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough ) a shekarar 1982. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1981
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1910