Jump to content

Winfred Peppinck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Winfred Marcel Peppinck
Australian High Commissioner to
Barbados
In office
2001[1] – May 2004[2]
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Succeeded byJohn Michell (to Port of Spain)
Personal details
Born(1946-01-02)2 January 1946
The Hague, Netherlands
Died1 October 2020(2020-10-01) (aged 74)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
WebsiteAustralia in Trinidad and Tobago

Winfred Marcel Peppinck (2 January 1946 – 1 October 2020) was an Australian author and former diplomat who served as the Australian Ambassador to the Caribbean at the former High Commission in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Biography

[edit]

He was born in The Hague, in the Netherlands on 2 January 1946. His family Annette (mum) Waldemar (dad) and Wido (younger brother) moved to the Dutch East Indies and in 1951 they emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. He received a degree in politics then worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic trainee. He was assigned to Brazil, South Africa, Uganda and Indonesia. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Ambassador to the Caribbean.[3]

From 2004 he served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa.[4][5] After the start of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, Peppinck wrote a number of articles in the pro-government Gulf Daily News, defending the Bahrain government's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.[6][7]

Peppinck died on 1 October 2020.[8]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ announcement of the Governor General of Australia , 14 March 2001
  2. ^ Australia's diplomat arrives: John Michell, www.newsday.co.tt
  3. ^ "Winfred Peppinck". Olympia Publishers. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Insights into life of a globetrotter". Gulf Daily News. 4 January 2009.
  5. ^ "Wilfred Peppinck - The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados". m-ybooks.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  6. ^ Peppinck, Winfred (10 April 2011). "Let's be media-savvy..." Gulf Daily News.
  7. ^ Peppinck, Winfred (16 May 2011). "Justice must be seen to reign supreme..." Gulf Daily News.
  8. ^ "Death Notice: Winfred Peppinck". The Canberra Times. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Paul Smith
Australian High Commissioner to Barbados
2001 – 2004
Succeeded by
John Michell