Sir Ivor Thomas Montague Pink (9 September 1910 – 28 January 1966) was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Chile from 1958 to 1961 and ambassador to Hungary from 1961 to 1965.
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Early life and education
Pink was born on 9 September 1910, the son of Leonard and Ethel Pink. He was educated at Uppingham School and New College, Oxford.
Career
Pink entered the Foreign Office in 1934 as third secretary and his first posting was to Tehran in 1938 where he learnt Persian. The following year, he was promoted to second secretary and returned to London in 1940. He served on the secretariat of the European Advisory Commission for six months, and was promoted to first secretary in 1944. In 1945, he was transferred to the Allied Control Commission for Germany at Berlin as deputy chief of the political division with rank of counsellor.
Pink was posted to Tokyo in 1948 as counsellor, and acted as chargé d’affaires in 1948 and 1949. After a year spent at the Canadian National Defence College at Kingston, Ontario, he was appointed deputy to the permanent United Kingdom representative on the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in Paris with the rank of minister in 1950, and led the delegation in succeeding years. In 1953, he was seconded to the Ministry of Defence as a senior civilian instructor at the Imperial Defence College.