Christopher Ewart-Biggs

Christopher Ewart-Biggs
British Ambassador to Ireland
In office
9 July 1976 – 21 July 1976
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterJames Callaghan
Preceded bySir Arthur Galsworthy
Succeeded byRobin Haydon
Personal details
Born(1921-08-05)5 August 1921
Thanet, Kent, England
Died21 July 1976(1976-07-21) (aged 54)
Sandyford, Dublin, Ireland
Manner of deathAssassination
Spouses
Mary Raines Gavrelle Thomas
(m. 1952; died 1959)
(m. 1960)
Children3, including Kate Ewart-Biggs
EducationWellington College
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch/serviceBritish Army
UnitRoyal West Kent Regiment
Battles/warsSecond World War

Christopher Thomas Ewart Ewart-Biggs, CMG, OBE (5 August 1921 – 21 July 1976) was the British Ambassador to Ireland, an author and senior Foreign Office liaison officer with MI6. He was killed in 1976 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Sandyford, Dublin.

His widow, Jane Ewart-Biggs, became a Life Peer in the House of Lords, campaigned to improve Anglo-Irish relations and established the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for literature.